81 Meaningful Quotes By Isabel Allende That Will Lift Your Spirits
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Write what should not be forgotten.
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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.
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.
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.
We only have what we give.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
You can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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.
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars
He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
