semi-precious love

from an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Committed":

About her man:

"He's a gemstone dealer and he said that when you buy gemstones in brazil, one of the things they do to try and trick you is they couple up the bad cheap stones with a couple of really dazzling ones. And what happens to amateurs is that they get so inspired and excited by the really pretty ones that they don't look at the flawed gems then they get ripped off. and he says that's what happens in relationships too, where you fall in love with the highest, glittering, most delightful pieces of the person that it makes you blind to their flaws. as in gemstone dealing and relationships, you have to look at the worst parts and say 'can I work with this?', 'can I make something out of this', and if you can, the good stuff will always be there....you just need to know how to deal with the bad stuff".