Denise

“This Joaquín was not a man of many words, but of action, one of the few with enough clearmindedness and courage to transform ideas from books into revolutionary impulses; the others would rather argue forever around a bottle in the back room of the bookstore.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

“Slavery had been quietly abolished ten years before. The African slave trade had never been profitable in these lands because there were no large plantations—although no one mentioned the fate of the Indians who had been deprived of their lands and reduced to penury, or the tenants in the fields who were sold or inherited with the property, like the animals.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

“People with original ideas always end up being considered mad”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

“The more you learn, the sooner you will know how little you know”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune