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From The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

AT SIX

"Clara was in such a hurry to make her literate that at the age of five the little girl was already reading the newspaper over breakfast and discussing the news with her grandfather. At six she had discovered the magic books in the enchanted trunks of her legendary Great-Uncle Marcos and had fully entered the world-without-return of imagination."

From Chapter Nine, Little Alba

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From Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende

NO INTENTION

"She had no intention of hiding her state; she exhibited it, indifferent to the disturbance she caused. In the street, people tried not to look at her, as if she had some deformity, or were naked. I had never seen anything like that, and when I asked what was the matter with the lady, my grandmother Paulina explained that the poor thing had swallowed a melon."

From Part Two, 1881 - 1896

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From Zorro, by Isabel Allende

SUDDENLY

"Suddenly the thought of his father struck him like a blow."

From page 162