Quotes by Isabel Allende

“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.”

“Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.”

“Kingdom of the Golden Dragon”

“Im going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if youre going to spend the day cooking, you wont have any energy left for love-making.”

“This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future.”

“one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.”

“This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not because of the worst crimes he committed.”

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.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

You cant find someone who doesnt want to be found.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

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.

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

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.

Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...

لقد عرف كيف يموت ، كما عرف كيف يعيش

Write what should not be forgotten.

Writing is like making love. Dont worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody elses.

Literary characters, like my grandmothers apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages