Quotes About Isabel Allende

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it.

The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.

They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief

I realized that she had simply fulfilled her mission in this life and that she had escaped another dimension where her spirit, finally free of its material burden, would be more at home

Mario no tenía humor para la chabacanería y había superado hacía años cualquier tendencia a la promiscuidad

Hundreds of thousands of terrified refugees were escaping to France, where a campaign of fear and hatred awaited them.

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

The Poet's funeral had turned into the symbolic burial of freedom.

Matias Eyzaguirre was at the port as well, with his car and a bouquet of roses for his reluctant fiancée.

Respira, hombre!Si respiras te prometo que hoy sin falta le quito el pestillo a la puerta de mi pieza.- Cuentan que Feliciano alcanzo a sonreír antes de que corazón le reventara

I have not succeeded in completely shaking free of religion, and when I'm faced with any difficulty, the first thing that occurs to me is to pray, just in case, which is what all Chileans do, even atheists . . . forgive me, agnostics.