I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

  • -- Isabel Allende 伊莎贝尔·阿连德

如果我留在智利,我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中,在家庭中,在人们期望我成为的那个人里。

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I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

我想人们会担心,‘如果我有孩子,我就不能做这个,也不能做那个。这有点相反。它真的给你能量。它让人们变得更好。

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

如果一个人只爱一个人,对所有的人都漠不关心,那么他的爱就不是爱,而是一种共生的依恋,或者是一种放大了的利己主义。

I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?

我认为女生总是被期望对彼此有自己的看法,也许有些事情我没有自己的看法,你知道吗?

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

成功意味着要有勇气、决心和意志成为你认为自己命中注定的那个人。

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it.

我从小就知道什么是死亡。我唯一的遗憾是不能把它写下来。

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

一个真正的作家是上帝派来完成这项任务的。

Film lovers are sick people.

电影爱好者是病态的人。

I expected results.

我预期的结果。