“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
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“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.”
Isabel Allende book The Infinite Plan
Source: The Infinite Plan
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“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
Source: The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Source: The House of the Spirits
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
Isabel Allende book City of the Beasts
Source: City of the Beasts
“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
“Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Source: The House of the Spirits
“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.”
Isabel Allende book La somma dei giorni
Source: La suma de los días
“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”
Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”
Isabel Allende book Daughter of Fortune
Source: Daughter of Fortune
“There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
Isabel Allende book Maya's Notebook
Source: Maya's Notebook
“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”
Isabel Allende book City of the Beasts
Source: City of the Beasts
“She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Source: The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Variant: 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.
Source: The House of the Spirits
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Isabel Allende book Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
On her work In the Midst of Winter in “INTERVIEWS: Isabel Allende” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21986-isabel-allende-fiction#.XajuoPlKjcs in BookPage (2017 Oct 31)
On how her sense of self remains tied to her native country in “Isabel Allende: 'Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/isabel-allende-interview-marriage-breakup-the-japanese-lover in The Guardian (2015 Dec 2)
On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)
