Alexa Robles Gil

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder