Maya's Notebook 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.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Mi Popo decía que el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“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.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Es fácil juzgar a otros cuando uno no ha sufrido esa experiencia”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“La vida es una tapiceria que se borda dia a dia con hilos de muchos colores, unos pesados y oscuros, otros delgados y luminosos, todos los hilos sirven.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“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”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no sè cuánto recuerdo y cuánto es producto de mi imaginación;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“دون كرامة يصبح المرء أعزل ،يفقد إنسانيته و يفقد روحه”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“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.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“Un dolor así, dolor del alma, no se quita con remedios, terapia o vacaciones; un dolor así se sufre, simplemente, a fondo, sin atenuantes, como debe ser”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“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,”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Since we’re going to suffer, let’s clench our teeth,” she said. Pain like that, pain of the soul, does not go away with remedies, therapy, or vacations; you simply endure it deep down, fully, as you should. I would have done well to follow my Nini’s example, instead of denying that I was suffering and stifling the howl that was stuck in my chest.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya’s Notebook

“I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“الجميع يندمون فيما بعد على رسائل الحب التي كتبوه”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“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.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“На всичкото отгоре трябваше да ми даде и пари, понеже пристигнах без стотинка. Увери ме, че баба ми му пратила пощенски запис за тази цел, но не вярвам, тя никога не се сеща за прости решения. Пò би подхождало на характера ѝ да ми прати лопата, за да изровя съкровище.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“La vida costaba demasiado trabajo, no valía la pena levantarse por la mañana y ver arrastrarse las horas sin una finalidad. Descansar. Morir. Ser o no ser, como Hamlet. "No pienses, Maya, trata de mantenerte ocupada”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook

“Los chilenos veneran al Papa, pero no le hacen caso en asuntos sexuales y sus concecuencias, porque un anciano celibe, de buen pasar economico, que no ha trabajado en su vida, poco sabe de eso.”
― Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

“Hi. I’m on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang,” I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings.
“Congratulations,” he said.”
― Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook