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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ... — Isabel Allende

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

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

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

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. — Isabel Allende

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

Writing is a calling, not a choice. — Isabel Allende

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

Alma Belasco had caught her attention. She stood — Isabel Allende

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

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion. — Isabel Allende

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions. — Isabel Allende

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally. — Isabel Allende

Barrabas came to us by the sea. — Isabel Allende

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

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. — Isabel Allende

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. — Isabel Allende

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence — Isabel Allende

Hitchhiking and sleeping in cemeteries. (He explained to me that they're very safe, no one goes there at night.) — Isabel Allende

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. — Isabel Allende

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

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women. — Isabel Allende

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

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

We turn our backs on Latin America, always comparing ourselves instead to Europe. — Isabel Allende

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

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him — Isabel Allende

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity. — Isabel Allende

Everyone is born with some special talent ... — Isabel Allende

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

He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even — Isabel Allende

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Writing is a constant exercise in longing. — Isabel Allende

Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance. — Isabel Allende

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family. — Isabel Allende

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

The hardest thing of love is to let go. — Isabel Allende

The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing. — Isabel Allende

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. — Isabel Allende

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

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue. — Isabel Allende

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

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

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie. — Isabel Allende

I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way. — Isabel Allende

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. — Isabel Allende

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

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. — Isabel Allende

You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? — Isabel Allende

Moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage. — Isabel Allende

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende

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

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

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

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. — Isabel Allende

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. — Isabel Allende

purple tongue, and that the whitish hair that — Isabel Allende

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

that were to drive us to the port to — Isabel Allende

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

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. — Isabel Allende

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found. — Isabel Allende

You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich. — Isabel Allende

I try to write the kind of books I like to read. — Isabel Allende

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story. — Isabel Allende

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. — Isabel Allende

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. — Isabel Allende

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende

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! — Isabel Allende

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so. — Isabel Allende

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende

With women the best aphrodisiac is words. — Isabel Allende

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. — Isabel Allende

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. — Isabel Allende

If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead, — Isabel Allende

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

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

I need to remember to overcome. — Isabel Allende

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. — Isabel Allende

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)? — Isabel Allende

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room. — Isabel Allende

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

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 — Isabel Allende

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. — Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende

He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. — Isabel Allende

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her. — Isabel Allende

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

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

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. — Isabel Allende

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. — Isabel Allende

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur. — Isabel Allende

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less! — Isabel Allende

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. — Isabel Allende

Meditation helps. — 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. — Isabel Allende

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. — Isabel Allende

Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende