A maior parte da Humanidade tem os olhos cheios de poeira da desilusão que nunca verão a verdade, por mais ajudas que tenham. Outras pessoas já são tão perspicazes e calmas que não precisam de instrução ou ajuda, seja de que tipo for. Mas há também aquelas cujos olhos têm apenas uma ligeira poeira e que, com a ajuda do mestre certo, poderão ser ensinadas a ver mais claramente um dia" - Buda

The memoir was on the New York Times Best Seller List of non-fiction in the spring of 2006 and in October 2008 after 88 weeks the book was still on the list at number 2. She is best known for her 2006 memoirs Eat Pray Love which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and was also made into a film by the same name in 2010. Along with her only sister novelist and historian Catherine Gilbert Murdock Gilbert grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield Connecticut.

Gilbert (born July 18 1969) is an American author essayist short story writer biographer novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoirs Eat Pray Love which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and was also made into a film by the same name in 2010.