“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
―
Isabel Allende
“Write what should not be forgotten.” ― Isabel Allende
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.” ― Isabel Allende
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.” ― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.” ― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
“We only have what we give.” ― Isabel Allende
“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.” ― Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.” ― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.” ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction” ― Isabel Allende
“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.” ― Isabel Allende
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.” ― Isabel Allende
“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.” ― Isabel Allende
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.” ― Isabel Allende
“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.” ― Isabel Allende
“Write what should not be forgotten.” ― Isabel Allende
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.” ― Isabel Allende
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.” ― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.” ― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
“We only have what we give.” ― Isabel Allende
“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.” ― Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.” ― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.” ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction” ― Isabel Allende
“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.” ― Isabel Allende
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.” ― Isabel Allende
“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.” ― Isabel Allende
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.” ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.” ― Isabel Allende
“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.” ― Isabel Allende
