"Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag"

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Source : Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

Laura Esquivel

#Horse Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Riding Quotes

“The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
“I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like”
“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”
“The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.”
“You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.”
“The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.”
“I like to drop in on people who picked on me in high school or whatever, just out of the blue, and chat with them to see how they think of me now that I'm a big star. Usually they're a lot nicer. After about half an hour, I excuse myself to go to the bathroom, and leave a few DVDs or pictures there. Then when I come out, I say good-bye and leave. Then I call the cops.”

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