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“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

Isabel Allende book Portrait in Sepia

Source: Portrait in Sepia

“​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.”

Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul

Source: Inés of My Soul

“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.”

Isabel Allende

“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

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

Isabel Allende

Source: Island Beneath the Sea

“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.”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

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

Isabel Allende book The Infinite Plan

Source: The Infinite Plan

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

Isabel Allende

“Write what should not be forgotten.”

Isabel Allende

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

Isabel Allende book City of the Beasts

Source: City of the Beasts

“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.”

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 Of Love and Shadows

Source: Of Love and Shadows

“We only have what we give.”

Isabel Allende

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

Isabel Allende

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

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

Isabel Allende

“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.”

Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits

Source: The House of the Spirits