The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert

Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason—for insurance against later regret

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.”

But the future sometimes approaches us more quickly than we expect, and the right moment doesn’t always announce itself with clarity.

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.

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.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person.

went into a skid

So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked.
“Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.

You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men

on my own dime