Isabel Gillies Life Quotations

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

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.

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.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.