01UndatedFor women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
02UndatedSilence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
04UndatedHow many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
05UndatedJust 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.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
06UndatedSadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
07UndatedDeath, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...Isabel Allende / quote ↗
10UndatedWriting is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
12UndatedLiterary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pagesIsabel Allende / quote ↗
13Undatedالكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعةIsabel Allende / quote ↗
14UndatedMediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
15UndatedFear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
16UndatedThey could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
17UndatedI 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 the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
18UndatedCatholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
19UndatedAt times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that 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 between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
20UndatedThe library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
21UndatedAs my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
22UndatedThis was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
23UndatedSeated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....Isabel Allende / quote ↗
24UndatedHer Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.Isabel Allende / quote ↗
