Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Arcelia Ramírez: Bisnieta

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Bisnieta : Tita, my great aunt. She will continue to live as long as someone cooks her recipes.

• Bisnieta : [voiceover]  When Tita felt Pedro's enduring gaze on her shoulders, she completely understood how raw dough must feel when in contact with boiling oil. The heat that she felt was so real that she feared that, just like dough, blisters would cover her body. The belly, the heart, the breasts. She looked down and tried to escape.

• Bisnieta : [voiceover]  That night Tita couldn't sleep. She couldn't explain what she felt. It's a shame that at the time black holes hadn't been discovered yet. Because it would have been very easy to understand that she had a black hole in her chest allowing all the infinitely cold air to rush in. That night she cried and knitted, knitted and cried till dawn, until she finished a quilt and put it over her shoulders. But it didn't help. Neither that night, nor many other nights could she conquer the cold.

• Bisnieta : [voiceover]  While preparing the mole, Tita realized how contact with fire changes the elements. How a piece of dough becomes a tortilla. How a breast, without having passed through the fire of love, is a lifeless breast, a useless ball of dough. In just one moment, Pedro had transformed Tita's breasts from chaste to voluptuous without having to touch them.

• Bisnieta : [voiceover]  She invaded Pedro's body voluptuously, ardently fragrant, and utterly sensual. It seemed they had discovered a new code of communication, and Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and Gertrudis was the lucky one, within whom this sexual relation was synthesized through food.

• Bisnieta : [voiceover]  Tita, with her hands free from her mother's orders, didn't know what to do with them. They could do anything or change into anything. If they just could turn into birds and fly away, she would like to go as far away as possible. She wanted to escape from herself. She didn't want to think about making a decision. Above all, she didn't want to talk ever again. She didn't want her words to scream out her pain.