"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."
"you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
"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."
"When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity."- Isabel Allende
