من شأن السجود أن يصبح باردًا ويغرق في الملل المألوف إن تركت... - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."

"One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation."

"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."

"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"

"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"