Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth GilbertWhatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
Elizabeth GilbertLearn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
Elizabeth GilbertI think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert