“My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world full of sorrows, this was only one more.” — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share Image
“...and in the summer we would line up three sand dollars John and I had found on our second date when we walked along the ocean holding hands, both of us taut with the knowledge the we had found The One- though neither of us admitted it until much later. It was the same beach where I scattered his ashes.… — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share
“My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world… — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure Lorraine and others like her-ones who were so despairing of marriage, ones who were so sure their expectations could never be… — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share Image
“From an airplane, the earth always looks so orderly, so gentle. So full of abundance and grace and purposeful intelligence. By day you could… — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share Image