Heart Quote by Isabel Allende

“living eulogy. she danced. she sang. she took. she gave. she loved. she created. she dissented. she enlivened. she saw. she grew. she sweated.…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had…

— Bell Hooks

“How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of…

— Roman Payne

“Then she decided she was ready to die. But before she did, she asked the poets to record these moments in song, and the…

— Eric Gamalinda

“She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited her oddly, like words in a foreign language sung to…

— Antonia White

“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing and radiant…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes…

— William Wordsworth

“The place that, even disembodied, her spirit recognized because it had drawn her to it for so many years. She entered the House of…

— P.C. Cast

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“She was practically an invalid ever after I could remember her, but used what strength she had in lavish care upon me and my…

— Calvin Coolidge