Quotes About Hope

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Nadie sabe para quién escribe. Cada libro es un mensaje lanzado en una botella al mar con la esperanza de que arribe a otra orilla.

No existe luz sin sombra, tal como no existe dicha sin dolor.

Tenía un pie en la ilusión obligada y otro en la realidad secreta

El exiliado mira hacia el pasado, lamiéndose las heridas; el inmigrante mira hacia el futuro, dispuesto a aprovechar las oportunidades a su alcance.

Que hay al otro lado de la vida?¿Es solo noche silenciosa y soledad? ¿Que queda cuando no hay deseos, recuerdos ni esperanzas? ¿Que hay en la muerte? Si pudiera permanecer inmovil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, sin llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio mas completo, tal vez entonces pudiera oirte, hija.

There is no light without shadows, just as there is no happiness without pain.

I said goodbye, kissed her, and asked her forgiveness for the sins of withholding and neglect. I thanked her for having existed, promised her that she would live on in my heart, and in her son's, begged her not to leave me, to visit me in dreams, to send me signs and clues, to return incarnated in every beautiful young woman I saw on the street, and to appear to me in spirit during the darkest hours of the night and in the days of the midday Sun.

That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.

En medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible.

Maybe the war against this cancer is lost, but meanwhile we can win a few battles.

It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Did you just think of that?

I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear.

thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn't worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. If anyone had told me then that I would live to be more than ninety, I would have put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger.

volveremos a encontrarnos en mejores circunstancias o en otras vidas

Isabel Allende

Under their wings they harbor their own and others' children, friends, relatives, and hangers-on. They are always bone tired, weary from serving others, always putting off what they should do for themselves; the last among the last, they work tirelessly and age prematurely, but they never lose their capacity to laugh at themselves, their romantic hope that their partners will change, or the small flame of rebelliousness that burns in their hearts.

Por las tardes salía de la mano de mi madre a ver la puesta de sol desde las rocas. Esperábamos para formular un deseo, atentas al último rayo verde que surgía como una llamita en el instante preciso en que el sol desaparecía en el horizonte.

Lo único que va a sanarte es el amor, siempre que le des cabida.

El lunes te agarró la muerte, Paula. Vino y te señaló, pero se encontró frente a frente con tu madre y tu abuela y por esta vez retrocedió.

Isabel Allende

En medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible. —¿Eso se te acaba de ocurrir? —No. Es de