Isabel Allende quotes

Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer renowned for her magical realist novels and powerful storytelling. Her works often explore themes of family, memory, and political upheaval in Latin America. She has become one of the world's most widely read and influential authors writing in Spanish. Here are 136 of her quotes:

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Isabel Allende

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

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

Isabel Allende

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

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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.

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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

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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.

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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

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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...

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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.

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You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

Isabel Allende

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

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We only have what we give.

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I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

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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

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

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