The Wind Knows My Name Quotes

“No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours, too.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“El viento conoce mi nombre y también el tuyo. Todos saben dónde estamos. Yo estoy aquí con vos, sé dónde estás y vos sabés dónde estoy yo.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“¿Sabes, Leticia? Eres la persona más alegre que he conocido, todo te divierte, cocinas cantando y pasas la aspiradora con ritmo de rumba. —Así somos los salvadoreños. Antes decían que El Salvador era el país de la sonrisa, pero supongo que desde la guerra civil eso de andar sonriendo se usa menos.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“ninguna mujer razonable desea un marido a jornada”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“You've completely forgotten what it takes to raise a child, Mr. Bogart. And this girl is traumatized -- she misses her mother, she's been pulled away from everything she knows, her family, her friends, her school, her community, her language. Can you imagine what that must be like?”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“A ese hombre lo quiero hasta ahora y lo voy a querer hasta que me muera.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“El pensó que el oficio de tejedora era una hermosa metáfora de la personalidad de su mujer, quien iba por la vida coleccionando y tejiendo historias y gente, así como coleccionaba y tejía hilos y lanas de todos los colores”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“In her everyday work, comfort was more important than looks, which was why she always wore blue jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers. But that morning she’d made an effort to make her grandmother proud, pulling her hair back into a sleek ponytail, putting on lipstick, and wearing the black suit she referred to as her “begging outfit” because she used it only when she had to ask for donations of money and time. She thought it made her look like a serious professional.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Se oía el llanto de los niños, pero tal vez era la brisa en los cañaverales.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“The psychologist had warned Leticia and Samuel that despite the fact that Anita was beginning to accept what had happened and was open to the affection they both offered, it would be very hard for her to get over her fear of abandonment, because she’d been through too many losses at a very vulnerable age. Nevertheless, Samuel was more optimistic, because the girl spent hours at the piano, lost in the notes, and he knew better than anyone the power of music. It had mitigated the anguish and uncertainty of his childhood and given meaning to his existence. He hoped it might do the same for Anita.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“his wife fell in love with Central America and maintained contact with people in the villages she had visited, several of whom were devastated not long afterward by a government-ordered military genocide of the Mayan population, which left two hundred thousand people dead, 1.5 million displaced, and more than five hundred villages wiped off the map. The majority of the women who’d taught her their craft were murdered along with their families and communities.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Some were run by private companies interested in retaining as many children for as long as possible, since the potential profits were enormous. The fee they charged the government for caring for each child was very high. The conditions in these places were such that human rights organizations and the press were not allowed to enter; even members of Congress had been kept out.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“For over ten years, the government had denied the massacre, destroying all evidence and silencing reports from the few fearful survivors, but with the end of the civil war the truth finally came to light. Everyone in the region remembered the horrific events.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“After the peace agreements between the government and the guerillas had been signed in 1992, the civil war came to an end officially, but the violence never ceased. Criminals and narcos, fully tattooed, packed the prisons but were protected by membership in the maras, the ruthless gangs that no government had been able to dismantle.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“They fulfilled their mission of scaring the locals into submission by annihilating more than eight hundred people, half of them children, with an average age of six. There were many operations similar to this one in the eighties. The civil war left more than seventy-five thousand dead, almost all civilians, almost all of them murdered by their own country’s military.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“He was one of the few Viennese citizens who had not taken to the streets to cheer for the German troops on the day they annexed Austria. He did not identify with those goose-stepping soldiers. He’d learned from experience to distrust patriotic fervor.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Ella había trabajado durante un tiempo en una residencia de ancianos, donde comprobó que al final de la vida, cuando la soledad se apodera de la gente, los muertos llegan de visita.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“Hay que estar tranquilas. No estamos perdidas. El viento conoce mi nombre y también el tuyo… No hay que tener miedo.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Dos cuadras más adelante vio el edificio donde vivía, uno de los primeros de puro estilo art nouveau, construido a fines del siglo XIX. Cuando Rudolf Adler compró un local a pie de calle para su consultorio, y un apartamento para su familia, las líneas orgánicas, las ventanas y balcones curvos y los vitrales de flores estilizadas habían escandalizado a la conservadora sociedad vienesa, acostumbrada a la elegancia barroca, pero el art nouveau se impuso y en poco tiempo el edificio se convirtió en un punto de referencia en la ciudad.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“La solución no es levantar muros y prisiones, mucho menos separar a las familias, Frank. Hay que reformar el sistema de inmigración y ayudar a resolver las causas por las cuales la gente sale de sus países de origen. Nadie quiere dejar todo y salir escapando, lo hacen por desesperación.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“I find it hard to stay positive in this rubbish world.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Me acuerdo de lo que me quiero acordar y no me acuerdo de lo que otra gente quiere que yo me acuerde.”
― Isabel Allende, El viento conoce mi nombre

“Cómo quisiera empezar de nuevo, pensaba, imaginando otra vida, una vida como la de Nadine, gozada y sufrida a fondo, con riesgos, desafíos y caídas, una vida valiente.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“Hay una estrella donde toda la gente y los animales están contentos y es mejor que el cielo, porque no hay que morirse para ir allí.”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

“No, we’re not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Everyone knows where we are. I’m here with you and I know where you are and you know where I am. See?”
― Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name