Isabel Allende
Related My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ... EVA VERTES I held her in my arms, and her pressure fell and she went to sleep in my arms. HOWARD STARK SHERYL SANDBERG I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif... JASON ALDEAN I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I&... SANDRINE HOLT MAHATMA GANDHI NICHOLAS SPARKS GAIL COLLINS SHERRI SHEPHERD ROBERT WINSTON My daughter is really ill, and I spend time taking care of her and my grandkids. She has two little ... ROSE ANGEL PAUL MCCARTNEY In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak. DANE COOK NICHOLAS SPARKS NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I think Princess Diana enjoyed it here in Pakistan immensely. She had a good time. But she never cam... HASNAT KHAN She looked at me, she rolled her eyes back, a tear came down her face and she died in my arms. EDWIN REYES EDMUND WHITE When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up r... KATE BECKINSALE VICTOR MITCHELL She's doing things she didn't do until the middle of October last year. I think it's going to be a g... BETH MURRIN We took her off the machines. They weren't doing any good anymore. We took her around and she met he... BRYAN GOODMAN It was a lot of little things. My daughter will turn 50 in April. The realization that I have a 50-y... NORMA ANDERSON SAM HOUSTON ISABEL ALLENDE That's a testament to the team. My daughter likes it. She took the trophy home and it's in her room. BRAD FAIRCHILD After I had the twins, she left a voice message on my home phone asking about them. She then came to... JODI RUCINSKI My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn... WENDI DENG MURDOCH EDMUND WHITE She also has a few cashmere sweaters. I didn't have my first until my husband bought me one when I w... DIANE CLEHANE Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior y... MAIARA WALSH JEANIENE FROST AMY TAN I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT UNKNOWN I was with my grandmother at the time and asked her, 'I think the thing blew up.' And, she was like,... DENNIS CLARK And, of course, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-year-old daughter. BRIAN MCBRIDE JEANIENE FROST My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w... LESLIE MORGAN STEINER He calls me a lot and tells me to go to Missouri. It would be nice to go to college with somebody yo... JAYSON PALMGREN I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE CARRIE UNDERWOOD I was biding my time until I got her in the lineup. She can really be this good. MAX BUKOVAC I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the... DAMIAN LEWIS We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December. JAMIE WOODRUFF JOHN MADDEN My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career.... BERNICE CARNEGIE AMANDA HOLDEN I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orlea... PATTI LABELLE JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT TOBY KEITH F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ANN HOOD I had a little 6-year-old girl come up and dump her piggy bank in my boot so I was, I had tears in m... STEVE SURACE JEB BUSH It's so hard to have them see me this way, ... I have been honest with my daughter. She knows I have... ANGELA HUNT I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents... BONNIE MCKEE JOHN GREEN JOAN RIVERS MOHSIN HAMID My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 yea... IVAN ALLEN KATY EVANS My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an opti... STACY DAVIS JOHN GREEN She may have been only sixteen years old, but there was a new life growing inside of her. She fought... VALENCIYA LYONS I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN NASH JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. JACQUELINE EMERSON JANE SMILEY DEONTAY WILDER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE J. K. SIMMONS BEVERLY L. ANDERSON We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year. ERIKA SLEZAK My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who l... TRUDI RENWICK She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in... SY MONTGOMERY ROMA DOWNEY GEORGE A. ROMERO My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could... VALERIE JARRETT BONNIE BEDELIA JOHN LYDON LAUREN GRAHAM I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family.... TRINI LOPEZ When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor... RORY CULKIN TUCKER MAX Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a ma... JAMIE FOXX My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she ... PATRICIA MCBRIDE GARY KEMP NIA VARDALOS I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life... PORTIA DE ROSSI When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of m... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I've always been interested in photography, but I never really got into it until last year after I t... ANDREW LAPISKA There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work... JULIA VOTH STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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You ar... ISABEL "If cats could talk, they'd sing as Frank Sinatra. If dogs could talk, they'd act as Chris Farley". ISABEL It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there ... ISABEL WILKERSON You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all t... ISABEL GILLIES Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com... ISABEL NORTON In my friend, I find a second self. ISABEL NORTON It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to both... ISABEL COLEGATE ISABEL LUCAS ISABEL LUCAS America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B... ISABEL WILKERSON The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch ... ISABEL YOSITO In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jaco... ISABEL GILLIES I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. ISABEL GILLIES We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks... ISABEL YOSITO ISABEL LUCAS ISABEL LUCAS I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the ... ISABEL YOSITO ISABEL LUCAS There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the gre... ISABEL WILKERSON Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, ... ISABEL GILLIES As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. ISABEL PATERSON I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I love... ISABEL GILLIES It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was... ISABEL GILLIES Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow! ISABEL YOSITO ISABEL LUCAS I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards t... ISABEL LOPEZ What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find m... ISABEL WOLFF What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is li... ISABEL WILKERSON The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. ISABEL YOSITO ISABEL LUCAS A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. ISABEL PATERSON It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's f... ISABEL CURRIER. It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing... ISABEL WAXMAN May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. ISABEL YOSITO Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and whe... ISABEL WILKERSON As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakd... ISABEL GILLIES I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end.... ISABEL GILLIES Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour du... ISABEL GILLIES Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit wit... ISABEL YOSITO Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ISABEL YOSITO I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone... ISABEL GILLIES ISABEL LUCAS ... la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz. ISABEL ABEDI Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generati... ISABEL GILLIES ISABEL LUCAS If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, le... ISABEL LOPEZ There isn’t a dance that can compare to the gaiety, the timing and cohesiveness of hand maneuvers,... ISABEL LOPEZ There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky t... ISABEL GILLIES What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your s... ISABEL YOSITO Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants... ISABEL PATERSON It's no good coming here. We'll watch it on the telly. ISABEL SHEEHAN Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he’... ISABEL LOPEZ Ich bin zu unerfahren, um Erfahrungen zu sammeln«, fasse ich mein Dilemma zusammen. ISABEL SHTAR No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to governme... ISABEL PATERSON That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as m... ISABEL HOVING ISABEL LUCAS It’s funny how much easier it is to see others’ shortcomings and give advice when you’re not p... ISABEL LOPEZ On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long ... ISABEL FONSECA ISABEL LUCAS I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe p... ISABEL GILLIES When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the ... ISABEL GILLIES What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw thei... ISABEL HOVING Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematic... 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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only c... 
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... 
My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away ... 
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... 
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... 
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... 
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte... 
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is... 
You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I
When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outs... 
My five-year-old daughter was asked by her teacher what her father does, and she replied, "Whatever ... 
You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that? ... 
My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pul... 
From my point of view, it was kind of bonus. It was frustrating for a moment, but to be honest it ne... 
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We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... 
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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... 
To my lady. May she have success in all her endeavors, health and friendships, and may I not take my... 
She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... 
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When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... 
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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and ... 
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Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... 
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Mom worked with autistic children. 
I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I. 