Best Elizabeth Berg Quotes
- Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we… Appreciation
- 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 after… Closely
- I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I… Beautiful
- It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do… Courage
- Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time. Any
- *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 who… Bad
- There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Go
- Don't let your habits become handcuffs Habit
- Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. Inspirational
- When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that… All
- I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I… Box
- If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it. Doe
- I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? Anonymous
- This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. Always Comes
- Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. Abstracts
- You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm… Check
- books are like confort food without the calories Book
- But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on… All
- No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. Childless
- I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. All
- The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs… Bare
- I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I… Amazingly
- I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I… Direction
- Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until… Breathe
- It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You… Amazing