Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!
Elizabeth GilbertIn a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
Elizabeth GilbertYou must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
Elizabeth GilbertThe thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.
Elizabeth Gilbert