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Favorite Quotes from The House of the Spirits:
"Reality seemed blurred to her, as if the same implaccable sun that erased all colors had also deformed the world around her, transforming even people into silent shadows."
"But Amanda, who had read about the customs of African tribes and preached a return to nature, seized the newborn from his hands and gently placed her on the warm belly of her mother, where she found some consolation for the sadness of being born."
"She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh, and that the machine-gun fire and bombs of that unforgettable Tuesday had destroyed most of what she knew, and that all the rest had been smashed to pieces and spattered with blood."
"I am beginning to suspect that nothing that happens is fortuitous, that it all corresponds to a fate laid down before my birth."
"I have to break that terrible chain. I want to think that my task is life; and that my mission is not to prolong hatred, but to simply fill these pages while I wait..."