Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it.

The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

I can't live without you or with you.

Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

In high school, I always had boyfriends - it wasn't healthy! I was so used to having someone around that when I was finally on my own, it felt scary.

I think I'm now screwed for life because my first relationship was the most bizarre relationship ever, and I'm not normal any more. I've kind of been spoiled, and I guess I am kind of screwed up now.

Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional - you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.

Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.

'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.

I've definitely been in that situation many times - staying in a relationship longer than I should. I think there's so much of your identity that comes from a relationship.

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this person forever.' That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.