Notebaert Isabelle Quotes & Sayings

I must have wondered if the police were right, if the entire story was a figment of my imagination. This is the worst impact of severe trauma: the victim loses faith in the evidence of her own senses. And this is the great gift Paul Macone gave to me. He believed what I told the police back then. He believed me enough to try to solve the case, and he did.
Perhaps because I've sought out evil in this world, attempting to understand and tame it, I am particularly moved by goodness. There is a light that animates an act of generosity, when a person is kind - not to call attention to his own goodness, or to make a pact with God, but just because he feels it's right. I see this light in Paul Macone. Still, his kindness is almost too much to bear. I feel shy around him, despite this conversation. I even feel shy writing this down. (184) — Jessica Stern

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day. — Hedi Slimane

A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life? — Elizabeth Adeniyi

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. — Eric Stonestreet

When old friends reconnect, there is a refreshing newness, after great memories wash over you, the stage is set for so many more. — Tom Althouse

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

You just never know what the Supreme Court is going to do. — John Barrasso

shoes were so cut and slashed that they were ready to fall from her feet. — L. Frank Baum

History gives us no clean, straight causal lines binding events and giving them clear order. History is a poem, not a syllogism. — Rod Dreher

All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names. — Mahatma Gandhi

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. — Pema Chodron

Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last. — Leila Sales