Isabel Allende Quotes

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.

Write what should not be forgotten.

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

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

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 have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

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

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.

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

لقد عرف كيف يموت ، كما عرف كيف يعيش

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.

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.

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

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

Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicación fanática. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzarán las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas páginas inútiles y demasiados amoríos frustrados.

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.

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

أن أحدًا لا يقرأ غير ما يهتّم به