“there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you’ll stay in a place you’ve outgrown. When” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she’s not seen in such a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don't think you've even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You have so much love to give! But I feel like you’re all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, ‘Where… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without… — 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 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
“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed… — 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
