Isabel AllendeI learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no … ▶371Time
Isabel AllendeHow many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself. ✨ Isabel Allende (2014). Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, p.8, Harper Collins371TimeTruth
Isabel AllendeAs 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. Th… ▶372DeathHopeLife
Isabel AllendeI tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.361Humanity
Isabel AllendeShow up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up ✨ Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How… ▶362Reading
Isabel AllendeThe source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . … ▶362Humanity
Isabel AllendeMemory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.362Hope
Isabel AllendeYou are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.352Thought
Isabel AllendeI don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.374HumanityThought
Isabel AllendeThose who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.352Truth
Isabel Allende...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 consequence… ▶353HopeLifeTime
Isabel AllendeWrite to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. ✨ Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft… ▶364PoliticsReading
Isabel AllendeAt the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is a… ▶375LifeTime
Isabel Allendewrite with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.331Truth
Isabel AllendeMy worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.343Politics
Isabel AllendeI'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.321Politics
Isabel AllendeAs I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and s… ▶343LifeTime
Isabel AllendeFor women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.376Time
Isabel AllendeAfter a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.377Truth
Isabel AllendeBe careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.344Death
Isabel AllendeI never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every hum… ▶333HumanityLife
Isabel AllendeYou only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.312Humanity
Isabel AllendeIf, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering th… ▶334Life
Isabel AllendeNothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.301Humanity
Isabel AllendeI try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and … ▶356Reading
Isabel AllendeSeated 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 (2015). The Ho… ▶346Reading
Isabel AllendeThat was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the t… ▶357LifeReadingThought
Isabel AllendeI was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.368Time
Isabel AllendeI don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.302Life
Isabel AllendeHis lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. … ▶347HumanityLifeTime
