Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“If I could just have him until the day was over. Just a few more hours. But he was gone. I clasped… — Elizabeth Berg Death 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
“The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.” — Elizabeth Berg World war ii Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure it was right to abandon myself to lighthearted banter, to allow someone to interfere with my being able to… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching… — Elizabeth Berg Dark Copy Share Image
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg How Copy Share Image
The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement,… — Elizabeth Berg Basements Copy Share Image
“No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing… — Elizabeth Berg Dance Copy Share Image
“Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift,… — Elizabeth Berg Art making 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
“He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the… — Elizabeth Berg Time Copy Share Image
“I wish I could leave a trail of gratefulness behind me that you could see, glowing thanks. I would pay to see… — Elizabeth Berg Gratitude Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. — Elizabeth Berg Need Copy Share Image
“I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged… — Elizabeth Berg Burden Copy Share Image
She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All… — Elizabeth Berg Aprons Copy Share Image
