C. Elizabeth Quotes
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.
It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.
You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.