I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live. Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. Isabel Allende forgivinglove-is The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing. Isabel Allende slavedancing At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me. Isabel Allende strongerimaginationblood ...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst. Isabel Allende brainheartlove-is He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything. Isabel Allende forgivingtearslove-is After fifty most of the bullshit is gone. Isabel Allende bullshitgonefifty Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. Isabel Allende heroismoccupationfascination Writers speak for those who are kept in silence Isabel Allende silencespeak Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. Isabel Allende dyingrealityworld With women the best aphrodisiac is words. Isabel Allende aphrodisiac 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 colorjourneyreality 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. Isabel Allende autumnbeachreality Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. Isabel Allende sparkslove-isway you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction Isabel Allende lyingfiction Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken. Isabel Allende featherschickenswhole I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before. Isabel Allende support-youzeropast If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. Isabel Allende grandchildrenbetter-placeworld Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. Isabel Allende journeywritingmemories Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Isabel Allende longingexercisewriting far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die. Isabel Allende hometreecountry
