Latest Quotes

“Only now have I begun to see that letting go and trusting in the unknown doesn’t have to mean driving off a cliff, that leaps can be leaps of faith.”

— Kelly Thomas, Ready to Take a Faithful Leap

“I don’t know what else could have happened. But I wonder what we collectively lose as we try so hard not to care.”

— Emma Court, A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing

“My generation treats every liaison as if it is happening on an airplane, as if we have only that one night and there is no tomorrow.”

— Emma Court, A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing

“It’s just that my generation has turned this avoidance into a science, perfecting the separation of the physical from the emotional. We truncate whenever possible: texting over calling, meeting over apps rather than in person.”

— Emma Court, A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing

“I worried that I may never again feel as completely safe and at ease as I did making funny voices for a French bulldog with him by my side, but you can’t control how someone else feels.”

— Tonya Malinowski, The Entire Netflix History of Us

“But I’ve learned that people can develop empathy, even if by rote.”

— David Finch, Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy

“I still want to believe that two people can meet and like each other well enough to stay together exclusively, without the introduction of some 1960s rhetoric about free love or other noncommittal slogans.”

— Marguerite Fields, Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define

“Because, despite the fleeting nature of most of my encounters, and despite my own role in their short duration, I think what I have been seeking in some form from all of these men is permanence.”

— Marguerite Fields, Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define

“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It ha…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“I tried to tell myself that I’m young, that this is the time to be casual, careless, lighthearted and fun; don’t ruin it.”

— Marguerite Fields, Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define

“I had one of the most precious blessings available to human beings — real love. I went for it and found it.”

— Eve Pell, The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times t…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important p…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“OLD LOVE is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise.”

— Eve Pell, The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap

“I cannot regret that when I look at my husband I still feel the same quickening of desire that I felt 12 years ago when I saw him for the first time, standing in the lobby of my apartment building, a bouquet of purple irises in his hands.”

— Ayelet Waldman, Truly, Madly, Guiltily

“I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.”

— Ayelet Waldman, Truly, Madly, Guiltily

“Did we find love because we grew up, got real and worked through our issues? No. We just found the right guys.”

— Sara Eckel, Sometimes, It’s Not You