Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing… — 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
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt… — 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 think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 magazine, I… — 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 to someone… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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 Image
