Isabel Allende Quotes

But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

What shocks me about the issue of immigration is that globally, capital has no borders. Money goes wherever money wants to go. There are no borders, no laws, nothing, for the capitalists. And yet, for labor, for the workers, there are fences, electrified fences and bullets.

¿Qué hacer con esta felicidad que nos llega sin motivo especial, esta felicidad que no requiere nada para existir?

Tal ves temía que ese grandioso amor, que había resistido tantas pruebas, no pudiera sobrevivir a la más terrible de todas: la convivencia.

La muerte no existe, la gente sólo muere cuando la olvidan; si puedes recordarme, siempre estaré contigo.

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.

Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

النساء القويات يعرّضن للخطر توازن العالم الذي يُفضّلُ الرجال ، لهذا يسعون إلى مضايقتهن وتدميرهن

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness

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

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Detente, sombra de mi amor esquivo, imagen del hechizo que más quiero, bella ilusión por quien alegre muero, dulce ficción por quien penosa vivo. SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ

If for any reason you don't like the word feminist, look for another word. The name is not important as long as the work gets done for yourself and for your sisters in the rest of the world who need it.