Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. Isabel Gillies cookbookheartbreakinclude Change image and share on social
No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life. Isabel Gillies badgoodlife Change image and share on social
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Isabel Gillies collegedyslexicimpulse Change image and share on social
When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony. Isabel Gillies agonybookbreak share on social
In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. Isabel Gillies centraldressgreat Change image and share on social
My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school. Isabel Gillies bedouineggfeast share on social
You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved. Isabel Gillies accessamazebackstage share on social
I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening. Isabel Gillies baddifficultdivorce share on social
If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. Isabel Gillies attentionboredecrease share on social
When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. Isabel Gillies afternoonbleedbreak share on social
