Isabel Allende Quotes: 12

• I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

• I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

• The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

• Write what should not be forgotten.

• For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

  Of Love and Shadows

• Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

  The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

• You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

  The House of the Spirits

• Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

• Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

• My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

  My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

• They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

  Zorro

• I 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.

  Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile