“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 Artist Copy Share Image
“That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.” — Elizabeth Berg Choice Copy Share Image
“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.” — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like… — Elizabeth Berg Change your life Copy Share Image
I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved.… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and… — Elizabeth Berg Compass Copy Share Image
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching… — Elizabeth Berg Dark Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Contemplation Copy Share Image
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd… — Elizabeth Berg Awe Copy Share Image
“I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too… — Elizabeth Berg High school 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 Attention Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was… — Elizabeth Berg Life Copy Share Image
Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof… — Elizabeth Berg Choices Copy Share Image
“The summer I was ten years old, there was a group of kids in my neighborhood who played together every night after… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
“You are where I unlock myself, where I say that I have often put down my wooden spoon to stare out the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! — Elizabeth Berg Funny Copy Share Image
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time. — Elizabeth Berg Borrowing Copy Share Image
We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.” — Elizabeth Berg World war ii Copy Share Image
I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. — 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
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that’s what it is, one after the other.” — Elizabeth Berg Divorce Copy Share Image
When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. — Elizabeth Berg Alone Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it.” — Elizabeth Berg Belief Copy Share Image
