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Elizabeth Gilbert

The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • Alicehas quoted8 years ago
    Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason—for insurance against later regret
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    He would lament in his journals years later that he never felt the “timeless freedom of youth” but was instead haunted by the “overhanging threat of incompletion.”
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    But the future sometimes approaches us more quickly than we expect, and the right moment doesn’t always announce itself with clarity.
  • Tũn Chíphas quoted6 years ago
    Experience teaches us that the world is no nursery.” I agree—the world isn’t a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly whyyou sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.
  • b6579065514has quoted8 years ago
    Every couple in the world has the potential over time to become a small and isolated nation of two—creating their own culture, their own language, and their own moral code, to which nobody else can be privy.
  • b6579065514has quoted8 years ago
    Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person.
  • Alicehas quoted8 years ago
    went into a skid
  • Alicehas quoted8 years ago
    So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked.
    “Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.
  • Alicehas quoted8 years ago
    You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men
  • Alicehas quoted8 years ago
    on my own dime
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