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Eva Luna QUOTES

Eva Luna QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

2 " At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

3 " There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

4 " She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

5 " ...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

6 " My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

7 " That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

8 " I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

9 " January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

10 " Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

11 " The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

12 " Entonces dejé de examinarme en el espejo para compararme con las mujeres perfectas del cine y las revistas y decidí que era bella por la simple razón de que tenía ganas de serlo. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

13 " Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

14 " Te quitabas la faja de la cintura, te arrancabas las sandalias, tirabas a un rincón tu amplia falda, de algodón, me parece, y te soltabas el nudo que te retenía el pelo en una cola. Tenías la piel erizada y te reías. Estábamos tan próximos que no podíamos vernos, ambos absortos en este rito urgente, envueltos en el calor y el olor que hacíamos juntos. Me abría paso por tus caminos, mis manos en tu cintura encabritada y las tuyas impacientes. Te deslizabas, me recorrías, me trepabas, me envolvías con tus piernas invencibles, me decías mil veces ven con los labios sobre los míos "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

15 " On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

16 " Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

17 " Melesio tweezed his facial hairs, then ran ether-soaked cotton over his face, so his skin was the texture of silk; he took pains with his long-fingered, slender hands, and every night brushed his hair one hundred times. He was tall, with strong bones, but he moved with such delicacy that he gave the impression of being fragile. He never talked about his family and it would be years later, during his time in the penal colony on Santa María, that La Señora learned anything about his past. His father had been a bear of a man who had emigrated from Sicily and who every time he found his son playing with his sister’s toys gave him a beating accompanied by cries of Ricchione! Pederasta! Mascalzone! "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

18 " He had a presentiment that their fates would be intertwined, but immediately rejected it; he always tried to avoid falling into the traps of intuition. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

19 " Als ich siebzehn wurde, war mein Körper ausgewachsen, und mein Gesicht nahm die Züge an, die es noch heute zeigt. Da hörte ich auf, mich im Spiegel zu mustern, um mich mit den vollkommenen Frauen aus den Filmen und den Zeitschriften zu vergleichen, und entschied, dass ich schön war aus dem einfachen Grund, weil ich Lust hatte, schön zu sein. "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna

20 " algunas concubinas, mientras los ministros dudaban "

― Isabel Allende , Eva Luna