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“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…. For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”

“The slave who dances is free… while he is dancing.”

Source: Island Beneath the Sea

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

Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

“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

“The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.”

Isabel Allende book The Stories of Eva Luna

Source: The Stories of Eva Luna

“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.”

Isabel Allende book Maya's Notebook

Source: Maya's Notebook

“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

“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?”

Source: The Japanese Lover

“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

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”

Isabel Allende book Daughter of Fortune

Source: Daughter of Fortune

“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”

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

“Remember that all the others are more afraid than you”

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

“I imagined the structure of the novel like a braid. My job was to blend three strands evenly and neatly. Each piece of the braid represented one of the stories. The characters were very different but they had something in common: they were emotionally wounded by events of their past.”

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)

“The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don’t feel I belong anywhere. I’m an immigrant.”

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)

“Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”

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)