Isabel Allende Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

  Isabel Allende

  Gratitude, Children, Unconditional Love

• He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

  Isabel Allende

  Love Is, Forgiving, Tears

• 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

  Journey, Reality, Color

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Dark, Night, Forever

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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