Quotes from Isabel Allende

y aquella luminosa alegría que estaba siempre presente debido a que ella no creía que el mundo fuera un valle de lágrimas, sino, por el contrario, una humorada de Dios, y por lo mismo era una estupidez tomarlo en serio

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

Me acuerdo de lo que me quiero acordar y no me acuerdo de lo que otra gente quiere que yo me acuerde.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and, frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

L'aria fresca e il lavoro duro sono rimedi infallibili contro la stupidità dell'amore.

Yo escribía cada día un nuevo episodio, inmersa por completo en el mundo que creaba con el poder omnímodo de las palabras, transformada en un ser disperso, reproducida hasta el infinito, viendo mi propio reflejo en múltiples espejos, viviendo innumerables vidas, hablando con muchas voces.

Baila, baila, Zarité, porque esclavo que baila es libre… mientras baila

L'importante è quel che si fa al mondo, e non come ci si arriva.

I find it hard to stay positive in this rubbish world.

In her mother's last days, Lucia understood that death was not an end, was not the absence of life, but a powerful oceanic wave of clear, luminous water

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

Se había secado las lágrimas, pero había vuelto a la mudez con la resignación de quién nunca ha tenido control sobre su existencia.

Despite being English, they served an edible meal.~p 108, A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

Lucia le había dicho en su noche de confidencias que la vida se manifiesta siempre, pero se manifiesta mejor si la recibimos sin resistencia.

Despite being English, they served an edible meal. -A Long Petal of the Sea, page 108

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.

Cada uno lo hace a su manera. Para mí rezar es relajarme y confiar en el misterio de la existencia.

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.