Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We’re not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as… — 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
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — 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
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was… — 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
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to… — 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
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
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“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
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
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
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
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
