Real, sane, mature loveโthe kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after schoolโis not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
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 Gilbertcreative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?
Elizabeth GilbertIf I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
Elizabeth Gilbert