Isabelle > Isabelle's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
― William Faulkner

“My mother is a fish.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.”
― Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels

“You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for your sympathy.”
― Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels

“Beyond the pursuit of meaning and beyond good and evil too, she says. See, it’s a daily chore tryin to do the right thing. Not because the right thing is hard to do—it ain’t. It’s just cause the right thing—well, the right thing’s got a way of eluding you. You give me a compass that tells good from bad, and boy I’ll be a soldier of the righteous truth. But them two things are a slippery business, and tellin them apart might as well be a blind man’s guess.”
― Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels