Eat Pray Love [The Movie]

"The only thing more impossible than staying, was leaving.

"It's unnerving when a total stranger sees you more clearly than you see yourself."

They are both in bed, talking. She touches him, he says: "Don't you wanna give me the chance to miss you?"

"Did you fall out? I don't know how to be here. You wanna know how to be here? Stop constantly waiting for something.

Him: "Hey, if you stay, we'll go out for Indian every night." Her: "You never asked me to stay."

"What if we just acknowledge that we have a screwed up relationship and we stick it out anyway? We accept that we fight a lot… and we hardly have sex anymore… but that we don’t wanna live without each other. And that way we can spend our lives together miserable, but happy not to be apart."

"When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping…tutti."

"But I guess the only difference between you and I is that you are afraid to love again."

"Balance, my darling, balance is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself."

"I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself."

"Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life."

"Dear David, we haven't had any communication in a while and it's give me time I needed to think. Remember when you said we should live with each other and be unhappy so we could be happy? Consider it a testimony to how much I love you that I spent so long pouring myself into that offer trying to make it work. But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augusteum, Rome's first true great emperor, how could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world, as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins? It's one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. It feels like a precious wound like a heartbreak you won't let go of , because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured, the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged, then found a way to build itself back up again, and I was reassured. Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, It's just the world that is, and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city, the Augustus shows that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better that staying together, because we're afraid we'll be destroyed if we don't.:."

"I thank God for fear because for the first time, I'm afraid the person next to me will be the one who wants to leave."

Her: "Did you get my email?" Him: "Yeah. I'm sorry I didn't call sooner." Her: "Why didn't you?" Him: "Cause if I did respond we were still having a conversation. I would still..."Her: "I am sorry. We were... just bad timing." Him: "I just wanted things to be easy. We were good when things were easy." Her: "It's not that I need easy right now, I just can't have so hard." Him: "Well, you sound good, stronger." Her: "So do you." 

"You have to learn to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day. Now, that's a power that you can cultivate. If you want to control your life so bad work on the mind. And that's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Cause if you can't master your thoughts, you're in trouble forever. [I'm trying.] That's the damn problem. Stop trying, surrender. Go out into the garden and just sit there. And still your mind and watch what happens. Why don't you just let it be?"

“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I'm just through with the guilt. So this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans.”

Liz: "It begins when the object of your affection bestows upon you a heady hallucinogenic dose of something you've never even dared to admit you wanted an emoitional speedball of thunderous love and excitement. Soon you start craving that attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When it's withheld, you turn sick, crazy, not to mention resentful of the dealer who ecouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff. 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "Just frustrated, I'm concerned. I don't understand." 
David: "What don't you get?" 
Liz: "What's going on? You don't look me in the eye. You don't finish your..." 
David: "Nobody's asking you to make the bed!" 
Liz: "You don't have sex with me!" 
David: "Sometimes I'm not in the mood!" 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "Goddamn him, and he used to give it to you for free. Next stage finds you skinny, shaking in a corner certain only that you'd sell your soul just to have that one thing more time." 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "Well, then why don't we discuss it? Why don't we sort it? Why don't we act like adults? 
David: "Okay. Can I have a little space? How about that?" 
Liz: "Meanwhile the object of you adoration is now repulsed by you." 
David: "You don't always make me miserable." 
Liz: "There's a comfort." 
David: "I just... Sometimes I need to come home and have a little David time." 
Liz: "He looks at you like someone he's never met before." 
David: "Is that okay?" 
Liz: "Yeah. No, it's fine." 
David: "And not have to, like, you know, justify it." 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "The irony is you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a mess. Unrecognizable even to your own eyes." 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "You asked me to come here? Here I am." 
David: "And it turned into something else. Didn't it?" 
Liz: "You are such a child." 
David: "Right. I can't take this anymore." 
Liz: "Great. Perfect. That's a great response to a conversation. Goddamn it." 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "You have now reached infatuation's final destination. The complete and merciless devaluation of self." 

"In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call “The Physics of the Quest.” A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."