Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende, née le 2 août 1942 à Lima au Pérou, est une écrivaine chilienne naturalisée américaine d'expression espagnole. Wikipedia

Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits
The House of the Spirits
“… when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”
Isabel Allende livre Eva Luna
Source: Eva Luna
Isabel Allende livre Paula
Source: Paula
“Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”
Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits
Source: The House of the Spirits
“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.”
Isabel Allende livre La somma dei giorni
Source: La suma de los días
“The slave who dances is free… while he is dancing.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”
Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende livre Eva Luna
Source: Eva Luna
“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”
Isabel Allende livre Daughter of Fortune
Source: Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende livre The Stories of Eva Luna
Source: The Stories of Eva Luna
Isabel Allende livre Maya's Notebook
Source: Maya's Notebook
“There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
Isabel Allende livre Maya's Notebook
Source: Maya's Notebook
“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”
Isabel Allende livre City of the Beasts
Source: City of the Beasts
“She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.”
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits
Source: The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende livre Daughter of Fortune
Source: Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits
Variante: 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.
Source: The House of the Spirits
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Isabel Allende livre Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
On her work In the Midst of Winter in “INTERVIEWS: Isabel Allende” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21986-isabel-allende-fiction#.XajuoPlKjcs in BookPage (2017 Oct 31)
On how her sense of self remains tied to her native country in “Isabel Allende: 'Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/isabel-allende-interview-marriage-breakup-the-japanese-lover in The Guardian (2015 Dec 2)
On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)