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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...

She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.

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

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

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

All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.

There is no death, daughter.
People die only when we forget them.

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness

Not only serve the meal, they offer to cut the meat.

We only have what we give.

I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.

A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

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

epistolary communication:

In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

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

sin sufrimiento, no hay historia

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

But even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I go, but I always remember you.

It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

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

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Sex is the instrument and love the music ...

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

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.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

Write what should not be forgotten.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

I need to remember to overcome.

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.

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.

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

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.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

Autumn of the Patriarch,

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

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

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter ... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy.

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

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