What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her.
When you don’t already know the story is a lie.


Elizabeth Scott

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Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN
I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON