Iris Menghini

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits