You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel AllendeYou spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
Isabel AllendeThe first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.
Isabel AllendeI have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
Isabel Allende