Elizabeth M. Gilbert:
(18 July 1969, Waterbury (Connecticut)).
American novelist, essayist, biographer and writer of short stories and memoirs.
She is best known for her acclaimed memoir Eat, Pray, Love (2006), which was also filmed in 2010 under virtually the same title.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent, and working at a pace so slow, that I would be able to hear myself living.

After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March. You’re always surprised at how much of it can accumulate, and how fast.