“Jealousy. The person who hasn't felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name.”— Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia, 2000, p. 368Share
“Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”— Thomas JeffersonShare
“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”— Dorothy ParkerShare
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John MiltonShare
