Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was.

I'm getting back to my old roots.

When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

If you suddenly go striving for different things from what have stood you in good stead over a period of time then you're searching for something that you are probably not going to find.

Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.

When you meet people you've previously worked with, it's definitely comfortable.

Sam Smith knew who I was!

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.

That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.