“Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle.”
Isabel Allende Quotes
Born 1942
Chilean-American novelist, author of "The House of the Spirits".
26 quotesAbout Isabel Allende on Wikipedia
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”
“Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender.”
“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of.”
“Nobody is carved in stone, except the very pompous or self-righteous.”
“To exorcise the demons of memory, it is sometimes necessary to tell them as a story.”
“Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me.”
“We always think things like that only happen elsewhere, until they happen to us too.”
“Everybody has a story and all stories are interesting if they are told in the right tone.”
“Happy endings usually don't work for me. I like open endings. I trust the reader's imagination.”
“The written word is an act of human solidarity. I write so that people will love each other more.”
“Daily life is brimful of fantasy and at the same time books are saturated with reality.”
“Journalism taught me to know and love words, the tools of my trade, the material of my craft.”
“Pain is universal. We all experience pain, loss, and death the same way.”
