But it also left me in a really tricky position moving forward as an author trying to figure out how in the world I was ever going to write a book again that would ever please anybody, because I knew well in advance that all of those people who had adored "Eat, Pray, Love" were going to be incredibly disappointed in whatever I wrote next because it wasn't going to be "Eat, Pray, Love," and all of those people who had hated "Eat, Pray, Love" were going to be incredibly disappointed in whatever I wrote next because it would provide evidence that I still lived.
Mas também me deixou  numa posição muito traiçoeira ao aparecer como autora, tentando imaginar como  voltaria a escrever um livro que voltasse a agradar a alguém, porque sabia bem de antemão que todos os que adoraram  'Comer, Orar e Amar' iriam ficar incrivelmente desapontados com o que eu escrevesse a seguir porque não seria 'Comer, Orar e Amar'. E todos os que odiaram  'Comer, Orar e Amar' iriam ficar incrivelmente desapontados com o que eu escrevesse a seguir porque teriam uma prova  de que eu ainda estava viva.