Maya's Notebook
Isabel Allende
Top 10 Best Quotes
“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.”
“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
“Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.”
“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re rough and hard”
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”
“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.”
“I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.”
“You’re going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you’ve committed, see if you can come to grips with them,”
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”
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Book Keywords:
inspiration, story, writing, love, life, people, moving-forward, happiness, insomnia, courage, stupidity, suffering, relationships
