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1 " I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. "
― Isabel Gillies , Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
2 " In fact, you"-he pointed his fork at me-"look like a fairy tale. "
― Isabel Gillies
3 " Love must be extraordinarily powerful for so many people to ignore dangerous, red, blaring warning signs - or not to be able to see them at all until it is too late. "
4 " it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away "
5 " I’m not saying that you will ever be over the breakup of your marriage. Any relationship that started with that six-second love stays with you forever, and that is as it should be. Like everything else in this life, it changes constantly—it subsides, flares, grows distant, comes close, gets smooth—but, make no mistake, it stays. "
― Isabel Gillies , A Year and Six Seconds: A Memoir of Stumbling from Heartbreak to Happiness
6 " Wren, dear heart, if a man doesn’t love you, there is nothing you can do to change that. You should just let him swim away. "
― Isabel Gillies , Starry Night
7 " this is the book i thought to write because being cozy makes me feel capable of getting through to the next moment, to help another, to accomplish something important - even to love/ we are told our whole lives long to take care of ourselves. that’s even how we bid each other goodbye: “take care now!” but do we always do that? we overwork, deprive ourselves of sleep, eat poorly, beat ourselves up, get into fights, drink too much, and generally run ragged "
― Isabel Gillies , Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World
8 " A boy that I love doesn’t love me,” I said. “Well zen, zis boy, he is not your destiny. He is just a boy. "
