When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become. Isabel Gillies More Quotes by Isabel Gillies More Quotes From Isabel Gillies I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. Isabel Gillies marriage hurt inspirational You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better. Isabel Gillies better you broken heart Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps. Isabel Gillies fog sun hot wind I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. Isabel Gillies everyone doing think experience Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure. Isabel Gillies drops bath pleasure simple When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony. Isabel Gillies you broken heart love Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. Isabel Gillies your will reading life If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. Isabel Gillies face you attention world Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life. Isabel Gillies i-am feeling real life When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss. Isabel Gillies moment marriage wife tea I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. Isabel Gillies teenagers loved being love Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.' Isabel Gillies you hope god love There are a lot of great love stories. It's just the best thing. Why wouldn't you write about it? Why wouldn't you want to read about it? But it's hard to write about. It's weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people. Isabel Gillies best you hope love There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo. Isabel Gillies boy i-am never lucky Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh. Isabel Gillies being time life funny I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?' Isabel Gillies weird person like always I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Isabel Gillies kid think strong college I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller. Isabel Gillies career just library terrible You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved. Isabel Gillies fish i-am you friends When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. Isabel Gillies alone day light work
