All Isabel Allende Quotes
- Write what should not be forgotten. Forgotten
- The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Inhabited
- Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. Barrabas
- Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Constant
- 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. Down
- 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,… Daughter
- ...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… Acts
- I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even… Aspires
- The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me… Believe
- I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:… Always Set
- We only have what we give. Charity
- Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken. Chicken
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Accept
- Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. Into
- 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… Accept
- The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. Explanation
- Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. Important
- His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. Calls
- This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice. Assuage
- She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… Abundance
- My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… According
- She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well… Color
- That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things… Ambiguities
- I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… Absolute