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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never,... read more
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- Elizabeth Gilbert: Author and narrator. Having survived a very difficult divorce and traveled around the world to recover (Eat, Pray, Love), she is now living her life with Felipe, the man she met and started a relationship at the end of her previous memoir.
- Felipe: Pseydonym of Elizabeth's boyfriend (now husband), who also survived a hard divorce. Characterized as older than Liz, generous, kind, understanding, but at times impatient when tired or frustrated.
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock: Liz's sister and author of a set of young adult novels. She is married and has a young son and daughter. Liz and Felipe at one point reside with Catherine and her family. It is because of the close relationship between the sisters that Liz and Felipe strongly desire to spend their lives as a couple in the Philadelphia area.
- Mimi: Liz's niece.
- Maude: Liz's grandmother.
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- Phyllis
- Carla
- Mr. Webster
- Popenoe
- Chad
- Lillian
- Mrs. Parker
- Brian: Liz's friend.
- Edwin
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“Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop.)”
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“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.”
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“Let us not dwell on the mistakes of the past, darling. Let us concentrate instead on the mistakes of the future.”
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“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone”
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“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”
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“they would likely agree that there is not one special person waiting for you somewhere in this world who will make your life magically complete, but that there are any number of people (right in your own community, probably) with whom you could seal a respectful bond.”
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“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
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“resembled love, but without the problems of love.”
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“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of that.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to be pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.”
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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.
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Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
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The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and to be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on the miraculous.
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Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
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Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds become mature enough for sex.
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Meeting the Hmong women that day in Vietnam reminded me of an old adage: “Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”
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Late one afternoon in the summer of 2006, I found myself in a small village in northern Vietnam, sitting around a sooty kitchen fire with a number of local women whose language I did not speak, trying to ask them questions about marriage.
Table of Contents edit
1. Marriage and Surprises
2. Marriage and Expectation
3. Marriage and History
4. Marriage and Infatuation
5. Marriage and Women
6. Marriage and Autonomy
7. Marriage and Subversion
8. Marriage and Ceremony
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This book is in New York Times Bestsellers (Current). (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Elizabeth Gilbert (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0670021652
Page Count: 304
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0670021652
Page Count: 304
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- Library of Congress: HQ834 .G48 2010
- Dewey: 306.81
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