The Adventures of Isabel Quotes

“How to describe the way an attitude can alter a face, the features of which could belong as easily to a librarian or a mild-mannered shoe salesperson, but which, infused by anger or fury, could double for a horror-movie villain?”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery

“He really did have a pocket protector, lodged over his heart. I hope it worked.”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery

“I have spent the day in a melancholic state of self-pit, grief, and fury. With the onset of drunkenness, fury has won.”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery

“Pain is boring, and chronic pain more so. It's there all the time, like a noisy neighbour playing goddamn show tunes. As a topic of conversation it's limited and repetitive, two qualities that in theatre, books, life experiences, and companions are not usually valued”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery