Marriage Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

10 Marriage quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg shares ten gentle insights on marriage, weaving quiet strength and tender realism into each line. Her voice feels like a comforting conversation, reminding readers of the quiet resilience that underlies lasting relationships.

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“The one to tell. The one to be told by. For him, that was marriage.”

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“Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that’s what it is, one after the other.”

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I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to…

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“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need…

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I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the…

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“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…

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“Steven sits back in the booth, crosses his arms. “My wife was cremated.” “Your wife…?” “She died when Maddy was two weeks…

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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond…

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“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror…

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Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

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“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

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“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”

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“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…

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“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

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People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

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“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers…

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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…

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“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…

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*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…

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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…

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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…

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“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or…

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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is…

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