Isabel Allende: Trending quotes

“​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.”

“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.”

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”

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

“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”

“Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.”

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

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”

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

“Write what should not be forgotten.”

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”

“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.”

“We only have what we give.”

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

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

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”

“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”

“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.”