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Quotes from The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende

born 1942 Chile

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5 quotes

"My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.” (p182)

The House of the Spirits (1982)

“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice” (p162)

The House of the Spirits (1982)

The man and the little girl looked at each other, recognizing themselves in the other’s eyes. (p319)

The House of the Spirits (1982)

The Poet’s funeral had turned into the symbolic burial of freedom. (p441)

The House of the Spirits (1982)

She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh... (p430)

The House of the Spirits (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isabel Allende (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.