I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
Isabel AllendeThe connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing
Isabel AllendeFear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
Isabel AllendeHow can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
Isabel AllendeI felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.
Isabel Allende