“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.”

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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