Isabella Ides > Quotes

“Each beloved is different, and each is differently loved,” says Grandmother. “So you will never hear me say, I love you both the same. I do not.”
― Isabella Ides, The Godma's Daughters: A Love Story, A Time Travel, A Vision Quest

“Their great discovery was that religion is an artform, an act of the imagination. And among holy acts, the greatest by far was to imagine a new God.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“With hindsight, her audacity looked more thoughtless than fearless. Where she once believed she could steer her stars, she now saw herself as the gypsy bauble of a vagrant Earth—a throwaway, a once-upon-a-time, the accident that happens when the wind beneath your wings lifts you far and away from familiar markers, then drops you in a strange land without a map.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“It seemed to her that when a person gave up the ghost of the intended life and she’s headed nowhere in particular, nowhere marked on any map, what was needed was an invitation to somewhere.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“It had something to do with being overpowered by an unlived life, how an intended life could somehow diminish the given life.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“Poetry is the insurrectionist’s artform. It is the soft hammer. A countervailing wind of new song must ruffle the waves of orthodoxy, loosen the hold of old beliefs and clear out the clogged sloughs of dogma to make room for fresh acts of the imagination.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“They were both difficult, beautiful men, and I was a difficult, beautiful woman, and we loved each other the way difficult, beautiful people do.”
― Isabella Ides, The Godma's Daughters: A Love Story, A Time Travel, A Vision Quest

“You must care about something, Conrad. Caring is the thread we hang on, when we are hanging by a thread.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy

“One World, One Garden—became a popular bumper sticker in the Eden gift shop. Although it was Kilo’s sticker—Shift Happens—that was the best seller.”
― Isabella Ides, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy