Michelle

“The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.”
― 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

“To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things