My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share
