Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
—Isabel Allende
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.
—Isabel Allende
Memories…are like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they’re not written down they fade into oblivion.
—Isabel Allende
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