Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

I wanna run, i wanna stay. hold every piece, so it won't break.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

I set off, off to kill the man I love.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.