Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbertis an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and which was also made into a film by the same name in 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1969
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
sorry husband italian
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.
rain giving sun
I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
sadness years people
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
prayer tears
Your tears are my prayers.
happy-life order four
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.
sun wonder enough
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?
yesterday today bali-eat-pray-love
What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
men years forever
There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely...
giving trying window
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
enough maniacs
too many maniacs not enough michelangelos
divorce knowing want
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
love-is way desperate
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
dream country art
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
mean italian order
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.