Stories Of Eva Luna Quotes

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

ان الكلمات مثل العصافير ، تمضي طليقة دون نظام ولا وعي وبإمكان أي كان بقليل من السحر أن يحبسها ليتاجر بها

She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words.

أن التكلم هو كينونة أيضًا . فالإيماءة و الكلمة هما فكر الإنسان . ويجب عدم التحدث جزافًا ودون هدف

أنا أموت دون أن انتبه

Y en ese instante, como si lo supiera todo, ella le dijo que el miedo es más fuerte que el deseo, el amor, el odio, la culpa, la rabia, más fuerte que la lealtad

Estaba segura de que debía ser un hombre feo, tal vez enfermo o contrahecho, porque le parecía imposible que una sensibilidad tan profunda y una inteligencia tan precisa se sumara un aspecto atrayente.

I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.

أن جمال أولئك الأبطال الخياليين في الحكايات ليس له أي قيمة ، بل يمكن له أن يتحول إلى مبرر للتفاهة

Para tí el lenguaje es un hilo inagotable que tejes como si la vida se hiciera al contarla.

The Things They Carried has sold over two million copies internationally, won numerous awards, and is an English classroom staple. Isabel Allende was the first writer to hold me inside a sentence, rapt and wondrous. It's no surprise that her most transformative writing springs from personal anguish. Her first book, The House of the Spirits, began as a letter to her dying grandfather whom she could not reach in time. Eva Luna, one of my favorite novels, is about an orphan girl who uses her storytelling gift to survive and thrive amid trauma, and Allende refers to the healing power of writing in many of her interviews. Allende's books have sold over fifty-six million copies, been translated into thirty languages, and been made into successful plays and movies. Such is the power of mining your deep. Jeanette Winterson acknowledges that her novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is her own story of growing up gay in a fundamentalist Christian household in the 1950s. She wrote it to create psychic space from the trauma. In her memoir, she writes of Oranges, “I wrote a story I could live with. The other one was too painful. I could not survive it.” Sherman Alexie, who grew up in poverty on an Indian reservation that as a child he never dreamed he could leave, does something similar in his young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, named one of the “Best Books of 2007” by School Library Journal. He has said that fictionalizing life is so satisfying because he can spin the story better than real life did. Nora Ephron's roman à clef Heartburn is a sharply funny, fictionalized account of Ephron's own marriage to Carl Bernstein. She couldn't control his cheating during her pregnancy or the subsequent dissolution of their marriage, but through the novelization of her experience, she got to revise the ending of that particular story. In Heartburn, Rachel, the character based on Ephron, is asked