Isabel Allende, The House Of The Spirits Quotes

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

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

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.