“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“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.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“هم لا يمضون مثلنا مرتدين الهواء والنور بل يستخدمون ثيابا نتنة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Nuestros pensamientos forman lo que suponemos que es la realidad”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“You're one of a kind, Kate!" Alex said, and smiled.
"We all are, Alexander.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“—Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“La felicidad consiste en alcanzar aquello que hemos esperado por mucho tiempo.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende
Born place: in Lima, Peru
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“Oh, and Drew, honey?”
The former counselor looked back reluctantly.
“In case you think I’m not a true daughter of Aphrodite,” Piper said, “don’t even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet, but he’s mine. If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound.”
Drew turned around so fast, she ran into the doorframe. Then she was gone.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Lost Hero
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Trial
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― Arundhati Roy, quote from The God of Small Things
“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky”
― John Grogan, quote from Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Screwtape Letters
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