Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

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About Isabel Allende

Portrait of Isabel Allende

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La...

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I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

—Isabel Allende in The House of the Spirits

For every one torturer, there are a thousand people ready to risk their lives to save another. For every soldier who shoots in a neighborhood, there are a thousand compañeros who help and protect each other.

—Isabel Allende

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More quotations tagged with “tenderness”

At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.

—Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived, but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich, as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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