Isabella Duke > Quotes

“she did not wish to dignify the feeling with further contemplation”
― Isabella Duke, A Skeleton in Every House

“Time waits for no one, madam,” he said. “A day may come that you will wish you had recognised what you wanted and let nothing prevent you from taking it.”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“He had hardly looked up, assuming nothing she might say would be of relevance to him. She had never quite known how to make her papa perceive her as she was. She supposed this was the way of things between fathers and daughters, perhaps even between all men and women, but it might not have stung nearly as much had her mama been there to tell her she was not alone in it, that awful, clawing desperation to be seen and understood.”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“I want to know you exactly as you are.”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“To one who does not walk it, the path always appears unobstructed.”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Over the years,” he said at last, “I have come to value most highly those parts of myself that must and shall remain solely mine.” It was not an answer, but it was an answer. Sadness surged up inside her again, a rogue wave. She wished she had not asked. “But is that not a very lonely way to live?” she said. There was that smile again, enigmatic and kind. “I have come to terms with it,” he said. “After all, madam, is each of us not alone in the end?”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Poetry cuts to the truth of the world, and of human nature, even if people do not wish to see it.”
― Isabella Duke, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea