“What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come… — Elizabeth Berg Families Copy Share Image
“Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean,… — Elizabeth Berg Good man Copy Share Image
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Accident Copy Share Image
“Let others bring knowledge of anatomy and physiology, of pharmacology and statistics. What Lainey brings to her husband is faith. Hope. And… — Elizabeth Berg Anatomy and physiology Copy Share Image
“Already I’ve seen that when you’re pulled away from your normal routine, it’s as though air and sunlight come into your brain… — Elizabeth Berg Habits Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her… — Elizabeth Berg Friendship Copy Share Image
“Well, you just don't seem very...proud of me." He started to say that he was, but she interrupted him, saying, "Don't. It's… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
“You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
“I know you feel bad about it, but here’s what I want you to do. Create an imaginary box. Into that box… — Elizabeth Berg Hurt feelings 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
“She doesn’t exactly know why kids don’t like her. She’s good-looking enough. She has a sense of humor. She’s not dumb. She… — Elizabeth Berg Cruelty Copy Share Image
“I always think incipent miracles surround us, waiting only to see if our faith is strong enough. We won't have to understand… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“I throw sticks for him, and it comes to me that it is a miracle I am able to do this: use… — Elizabeth Berg Strength Copy Share Image
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more… — Elizabeth Berg Mindful Copy Share Image
I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Brain Copy Share Image
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one… — Elizabeth Berg Art Copy Share Image
“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am… — Elizabeth Berg Grateful Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and… — 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 Dating Copy Share Image
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry… — Elizabeth Berg Cry Copy Share Image
“Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what… — Elizabeth Berg Human beings Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms… — Elizabeth Berg Flower Copy Share Image
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. — Elizabeth Berg Communication Copy Share Image
“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I look in the mirror now, and even if I lost weight, there's just...Theres' nothing I can do. It's over. My bodyness.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they… — Elizabeth Berg Joke Copy Share Image
“But losing weight for health reasons is a very dull prospect, doomed at the outset. Losing weight for romance, that’s altogether different.” — Elizabeth Berg Health Copy Share Image
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am… — Elizabeth Berg Breeze Copy Share Image
