Chasing Beauty Quotes

“Our faith might cause our light to shine on some other heart which as yet had no light of its own.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

“Belle collected experiences and impressions almost as if they were objects that she could put in her hand.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

“poem by her friend Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the longtime editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Its lines read like a brace against failure: “Build as thou will—unspoiled by praise or blame / Build as thou will; and as thy light is given / Then if at last the airy structure fall / Divide & vanish—Take thyself no shame—/ They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner