The Wind Knows My Name

by Isabel Allende

They could be robbed of their belongings, as had occurred repeatedly throughout history, but no one could take away their intellectual assets.

Hers was a discreet refinement, since ostentation repulsed her as much as arrogance.

No reasonable woman wanted a full-time husband.

No one wants to abandon everything they know and run away; they only do it out of total desperation.”

“Do you ever think you might be creating a legend around Miss Nadine?” “We all have the right to make up our own legends.” “I don’t need to make mine up, sir.”