Way Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

8 Way quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Berg’s tender voice appears in eight brief quotes, each delivering a soft, compassionate view of the Way. A short, comforting collection for readers seeking warmth and insight.

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I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

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No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never…

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My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a…

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I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was…

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I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and…

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Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have…

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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one…

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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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