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Elizabeth M. Gilbert is an American author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 had 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. July 1969  •  Other names এলিজাবেথ গিলবার্ট
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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“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.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Variant: Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

On the inspiration she received from reading, and the works of L. Frank Baum.