843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him.

La vida es un ruido entre dos grandes silencios.

You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it’s full of mistakes and repetitions. It’s good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It’s not a lecture.

She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh.

In the Chinese language, do you know what the characters for ‘crisis’ are? ‘Danger’ plus ’opportunity.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day’s gone and I don’t even know what I’ve done with the hours.

Lo peor es tenerle miedo al miedo.