Isabel Allende: Trending quotes (page 3)
Isabel Allende trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“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
Source: Eva Luna
“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”
Source: Daughter of Fortune
“There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”
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.”
Source: 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.”
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)