Isobella Douglass Quotes

#1. A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

Thomas Merton

#2. I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken ... but I do recall when I started to understand that it might be okay. It was the moment I fell in love with the boy with the green eyes.

John Goode

#3. I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

Kent Haruf

#4. As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.

Marek Belka

#5. Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Henri Rousseau

#6. [T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free..

Siva Vaidhyanathan

#7. She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn't if I were you...

Elaine Coffman