“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“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, quote from Eva Luna
“I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Entonces dejé de examinarme en el espejo para compararme con las mujeres perfectas del cine y las revistas y decidí que era bella por la simple razón de que tenía ganas de serlo.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Te quitabas la faja de la cintura, te arrancabas las sandalias, tirabas a un rincón tu amplia falda, de algodón, me parece, y te soltabas el nudo que te retenía el pelo en una cola. Tenías la piel erizada y te reías. Estábamos tan próximos que no podíamos vernos, ambos absortos en este rito urgente, envueltos en el calor y el olor que hacíamos juntos. Me abría paso por tus caminos, mis manos en tu cintura encabritada y las tuyas impacientes. Te deslizabas, me recorrías, me trepabas, me envolvías con tus piernas invencibles, me decías mil veces ven con los labios sobre los míos”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Words are free, she tried to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“La tristeza y el aburrimiento le resultaban más soportables que el esfuerzo de una existencia normal.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Al crecer Rolf Carlé resultó observador, orgulloso y tenaz, con cierta inclinación romántica que lo abochornaba como un signo de debilidad.En esa época de exaltación guerrera, él jugaba con sus compañeros a las trincheras y a los aviones derribados, pero en secreto se conmovía con los brotes de cada primavera, las flores en el verano, el oro del otoño y la triste blancura del invierno.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“He had a presentiment that their fates would be intertwined, but immediately rejected it; he always tried to avoid falling into the traps of intuition.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“Als ich siebzehn wurde, war mein Körper ausgewachsen, und mein Gesicht nahm die Züge an, die es noch heute zeigt. Da hörte ich auf, mich im Spiegel zu mustern, um mich mit den vollkommenen Frauen aus den Filmen und den Zeitschriften zu vergleichen, und entschied, dass ich schön war aus dem einfachen Grund, weil ich Lust hatte, schön zu sein.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
“algunas concubinas, mientras los ministros dudaban”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Eva Luna
Isabel Allende
Born place: in Lima, Peru
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“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, quote from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Muerte de tinta
“And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”
― Lucinda Riley, quote from The Light Behind the Window
“In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes, and to make them keep pace one with the other, but in two pathways which are always different. American women never manage the outward concerns of the family, or conduct a business, or take a part in political life; nor are they, on the other hand, ever compelled to perform the rough labor of the fields, or to make any of those laborious exertions which demand the exertion of physical strength.
No families are so poor as to form an exception to this rule. If on the one hand an American woman cannot escape from the quiet circle of domestic employments, on the other hand she is never forced to go beyond it. Hence it is that the women of America, who often exhibit a masculine strength of understanding and a manly energy, generally preserve great delicacy of personal appearance and always retain the manners of women, although they sometimes show that they have the hearts and minds of men.
Nor have the Americans ever supposed that one consequence of democratic principles is the subversion of marital power, of the confusion of the natural authorities in families. They hold that every association must have a head in order to accomplish its object, and that the natural head of the conjugal association is man. They do not therefore deny him the right of directing his partner; and they maintain, that in the smaller association of husband and wife, as well as in the great social community, the object of democracy is to regulate and legalize the powers which are necessary, not to subvert all power.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, quote from De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome II
“Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.”
― Amit Ray, quote from Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
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