Lovers at the Museum Quotes

“He was determined to be delicate with the girl so as not to frighten her. “Are you a whore?” he asked.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“I’m certain that there was something vibrating in the air, like a murmur, like the river of words we say without thinking”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“The point is that I fell in love, to my bones. That’s how it was. I swear. Her face was swollen, her makeup was a mess, she looked like a clown, but those green eyes, like Cleopatra’s, pierced right through my heart. I’m telling you, Inspector, nothing like that had ever happened to me. I felt a brutal electric shock, like sticking a finger in a socket.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“...talvez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo; tal vez el espacio está lleno de presencias de todas las épocas, como decía mi abuela, y todo lo que ha sucedido y lo que sucederá coexiste en un presente eterno.”
― Isabel Allende, Los amantes del Guggenheim

“En eso consiste a menudo la escritura: encontrar tesoros ocultos, dar brillo a los hechos gastados y revitalizar el alma desesperada mediante el soplo de la imaginación.”
― Isabel Allende, Los amantes del Guggenheim

“Have you smelled plums? They have a dense fragrance that leaves a sense of urgency in the mouth.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“More like butterflies, I would say. We fluttered through the galleries and breezed in and out of the paintings, and we drank the colors and got lost in the labyrinth and danced with the sculptures; then we landed.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“We saw diamonds dripping down the windows, and there was music like a waterfall.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“I told you, Inspector, that place is enchanted. It’s not just me saying it. Everyone knows that strange things happen in there.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“He was determined to be delicate with the girl so as not to frighten her.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“Well, Inspector, it’s not every day you see a chick in a wedding dress bathed in tears and throwing back pints like an Englishman.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“It was election time, there were terrorist threats, and the National Health System was on strike. The authorities had no time to waste with a couple in love. And the Guggenheim was just a museum, after all. Who cared about art?”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“The press, busy with the scandal at the Vatican, soon forgot the lovers.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“I’m a Leo because I was born in August. It’s a fire sign; that’s why I’m passionate and I fall in love without thinking.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“a short-legged, mustachioed ape.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“One of the policemen took off his cap and put it over the offensive member, but that did not conceal it completely.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“After considering several possibilities, the astute detective determined that the lovers must’ve walked into the Guggenheim at the precise instant in which the museum entered the dimension of dreams, and they unwittingly fell into a time that is not marked by clocks.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum

“You say that we broke into the Guggenheim, but I am telling you that we were in a magical place. There were no walls; it was like being in a translucent sphere of light. Or at the bottom of an illuminated pool.”
― Isabel Allende, Lovers at the Museum