Eat, Pray, Love

95 I finally sat down with Wayan and told her about the money I’d raised for her house. I ex- plained about my birthday wish, sh ...

“Keep your husband, Wayan. Just make sure Tutti goes to university.” “What would I do if you never came here?” But I was always ...

person to them because I’d produced so much money out of nowhere? (Such an unthinkable amount of money that maybe it’s like blac ...

96 I went out with Brazilian Felipe again, twice over the weekend. On Saturday I brought him to meet Wayan and the kids, and Tut ...

eat), “Should we have an affair together, Liz? What do you think?” I liked everything about the way this was happening. Not with ...

alone for a long time, too, and I’ve lost a great deal in love, just like you have. I don’t want us to take anything from each o ...

that decision than he would have told me how to style my hair. I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But wh ...

dia. Then I meditated for an hour of bone-tingling stillness until I finally felt it again—that spe- cific, constant, clear-sky, ...

97 So I was kind of surprised the next night when—after he’d made me dinner at his house and after we’d sprawled on his couch fo ...

parachute to escort me out the side exit of the solid, disciplined airplane which had been fly- ing me during these few years ou ...

98 We didn’t sleep at all, of course. And then, it was ridiculous—I had to go. I had to go back to my house stupidly early the n ...

So Felipe drops me off at my house with one last passionate embrace and I have just enough time to shower and pull myself togeth ...

an island, see what’s going on out there. There are so many kinds of beaches in Bali. We hang out one day along the long souther ...

Every day I call Felipe from whatever outback phone I can find, and he asks, “How many more sleeps until you come back to me?” H ...

“Ever try the egg creams at Tick-Tock?” He moans, “Oh my God, I know.. .” I feel his longing for New York so deeply that for a m ...

99 When we return to Ubud, I go straight back to Felipe’s house and don’t leave his bedroom for approximately another month. Thi ...

Come here, my delicious one. Felipe is also the endearment master. In bed he slips into adoring me in Portuguese, so I have grad ...

“Why you never bring boyfriend here to meet me?” he asked now. “I did, Ketut. Really I did. And you told me you liked him.” “Don ...

100 But all the fun and games caught up with me after a few weeks. After all those nights of not sleeping and all those days of ...

who would volunteer to come in for a vasectomy... though I hate to think the guys had to ride their new bikes home the same day. ...