The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
Isabel AllendeI was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel AllendeNations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Isabel Allende...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.
Isabel Allende