More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Read More
"Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job."
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Read More
"With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Read More
"Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work."
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Read More
"Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury."
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