Quotes by Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

…a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

Brain

Heart

Love Is

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…memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

Believe

Memories

Past

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…when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Failing

Language

Stars

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A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone – a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity – and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

Book

Loneliness

Winning

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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Doe

Men

Women

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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Exercise

Mirrors

Writing

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A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Hard Work

Inspiration

Stories

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A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Infinite

Landscape

Window

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Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Children

Gratitude

Unconditional Love

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Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Doe

Needs

Sun

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