This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. — Elizabeth Berg Boy and girl Copy Share Image
“Oh, Arthur, no one even sees you when you get old except for people who knew you when you were young.” — Elizabeth Berg Arthur Copy Share Image
“People who don’t feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.” — Elizabeth Berg Cared Copy Share Image
Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you — Elizabeth Berg Long Copy Share Image
My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. — Elizabeth Berg Character Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.” — Elizabeth Berg Young Copy Share Image
“We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.” — Elizabeth Berg Ahead Copy Share Image
“Everybody has thoughts that shame them. You can’t control them coming in. But you don’t have to let them all out.” — Elizabeth Berg Shame Copy Share Image
“When Arthur gets home, he pulls the mail from the box, brings it into the kitchen to sort through it, then tosses… — Elizabeth Berg Junk mail Copy Share Image
“I never saw the point in going out to fancy restaurants. It’s not that I don’t appreciate good food; I love good… — Elizabeth Berg Food Copy Share Image
“one of the hardest things in life is fessing up to what you want most, because if you do that, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Hard Copy Share Image
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced,… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“I made him ricotta pancakes with pecan syrup for breakfast. And he ate them, knowing he’d be dumping me right afterward. What… — Elizabeth Berg Pancakes Copy Share Image
“You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks… — Elizabeth Berg Dryer Copy Share Image
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about… — Elizabeth Berg Being Copy Share Image
“Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.'… — Elizabeth Berg Colonel Copy Share Image
“I am living on a planet where the silk dresses of Renaissance women rustled, where people died in plagues, where Mozart sat… — Elizabeth Berg Astronomy Copy Share Image
“We ate, we slept, we formed our kaleidoscopic relationships and marched ever forward. We licked chocolate from our fingers. We arranged flowers… — Elizabeth Berg Born alone Copy Share Image
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Agents Copy Share Image
“You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads… — Elizabeth Berg Closet Copy Share Image
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and… — Elizabeth Berg End Copy Share Image
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as… — Elizabeth Berg Connections Copy Share Image
“mostly, you only make a change, the balding chinese man tells me. I stare at him for a moment, uncomprehending, wondering if… — Elizabeth Berg Change Copy Share Image
“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond… — Elizabeth Berg Loss Copy Share Image
People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. — Elizabeth Berg People Copy Share Image
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. — Elizabeth Berg Better Copy Share Image
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to. — Elizabeth Berg Able Copy Share Image
“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.” — Elizabeth Berg Hope Copy Share Image
“It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.” — Elizabeth Berg Feel Copy Share Image
Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. — Elizabeth Berg Complex Copy Share Image
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. — Elizabeth Berg Crazy 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 Giving Copy Share Image
Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them. — Elizabeth Berg Being Copy Share Image
“They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.” — Elizabeth Berg Important lessons Copy Share Image
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. — Elizabeth Berg Clock Copy Share Image
I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. — Elizabeth Berg Admiration Copy Share Image
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would… — Elizabeth Berg Doe Copy Share Image
When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. — Elizabeth Berg Alone Copy Share Image
“Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that’s what it is, one after the other.” — Elizabeth Berg Divorce Copy Share Image
“history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it.” — Elizabeth Berg Belief Copy Share Image
