“Mi Popo decía que el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Es fácil juzgar a otros cuando uno no ha sufrido esa experiencia”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“La vida es una tapiceria que se borda dia a dia con hilos de muchos colores, unos pesados y oscuros, otros delgados y luminosos, todos los hilos sirven.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re rough and hard”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no sè cuánto recuerdo y cuánto es producto de mi imaginación;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Los chilenos veneran al Papa, pero no le hacen caso en asuntos sexuales y sus concecuencias, porque un anciano celibe, de buen pasar economico, que no ha trabajado en su vida, poco sabe de eso.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“دون كرامة يصبح المرء أعزل ،يفقد إنسانيته و يفقد روحه”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“На всичкото отгоре трябваше да ми даде и пари, понеже пристигнах без стотинка. Увери ме, че баба ми му пратила пощенски запис за тази цел, но не вярвам, тя никога не се сеща за прости решения. Пò би подхождало на характера ѝ да ми прати лопата, за да изровя съкровище.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re rough and hard.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“La vida costaba demasiado trabajo, no valía la pena levantarse por la mañana y ver arrastrarse las horas sin una finalidad. Descansar. Morir. Ser o no ser, como Hamlet. "No pienses, Maya, trata de mantenerte ocupada”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“You’re going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you’ve committed, see if you can come to grips with them,”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“La felicidad es jabonosa, se escurre entre los dedos, pero a los problemas uno puede aferrarse, tienen asidero, son ásperos, duros.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“الجميع يندمون فيما بعد على رسائل الحب التي كتبوه”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Un dolor así, dolor del alma, no se quita con remedios, terapia o vacaciones; un dolor así se sufre, simplemente, a fondo, sin atenuantes, como debe ser”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Si es cierto que las casas se impregnan de la vida transcurrida entre sus paredes, en el caso de los Corrales hay maldad.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Since we’re going to suffer, let’s clench our teeth,” she said. Pain like that, pain of the soul, does not go away with remedies, therapy, or vacations; you simply endure it deep down, fully, as you should. I would have done well to follow my Nini’s example, instead of denying that I was suffering and stifling the howl that was stuck in my chest.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
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“Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“If you burst a chokepod, and the gas doesn’t get me, your grandfather will. Come on.”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Grip of the Shadow Plague
“We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Zahir
“Haven't you ever observed how we live in an age of self-persecution? What a lot of things there are one might do that one doesn't - and yet why, God only knows. Work has become so tremendously important to-day, because so many have none, I suppose, that it kills everything else... Work, work, work . . . an abominable obsession - and always under the illusion it will be different later. And it never is different. Queer, isn't it, that anyone should do that with his life?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from Three Comrades
“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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