# Quote — Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

> Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. She was already in the habit of writing down important matters, and afterward, when she was mute, she also recorded trivialities, never suspecting that fifty years later I would use her notebooks to reclaim the past and overcome terrors of my own. (first lines)

- Author: [Isabel Allende](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isabel-allende.md)
- Book: [The House of the Spirits](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isabel-allende/the-house-of-the-spirits.md)
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