“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
“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
“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”Isabel Allende
“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”Isabel Allende
“When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.”Isabel Allende
“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving…”Isabel Allende book PaulaSource: Paula
“… a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”Isabel Allende