To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - th... - Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."

"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

"You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words."

"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

"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."