Quotes by Isabel Allende

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”

“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 that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.”

“As 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 ...”

“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”

“Sadness 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...”

“This 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.”

“Death, 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 b...”

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“I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.”

“I can promise you that women working together linked, informed and educated can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”

“Write what should not be forgotten.”

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”

“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. ”

“Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages”

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“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”

“Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....”

“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”