“She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
