“You know I love you, but you are one of the most exasperating people I have ever met.” — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what… — Elizabeth Berg History Copy Share Image
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them,… — Elizabeth Berg Men Copy Share Image
I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there… — Elizabeth Berg Come Copy Share Image
As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many… — Elizabeth Berg Different ways 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
“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
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the… — Elizabeth Berg Courage Copy Share Image
“I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. — Elizabeth Berg American Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.” — Elizabeth Berg Time Copy Share Image
“Only way I can get any shut-eye is to sleep on the floor.” “I see.” “It ain’t permanent,” he said. “I’m working… — Elizabeth Berg Every night Copy Share Image
“She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not… — Elizabeth Berg Poetry Copy Share Image
This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. — Elizabeth Berg Boy and girl Copy Share Image
“I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of… — Elizabeth Berg Peace 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
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. — Elizabeth Berg Best Copy Share Image
People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. — Elizabeth Berg People Copy Share Image
How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything. — Elizabeth Berg Felt Copy Share Image
