I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long… — Elizabeth Berg 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
“ CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE’S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO” — Elizabeth Berg Happiness Copy Share Image
“All these small things are the glue that keeps you bound to your own life. They are the things that make you… — Elizabeth Berg Respect Copy Share Image
“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd… — Elizabeth Berg Awe Copy Share Image
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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
“Steven sits back in the booth, crosses his arms. “My wife was cremated.” “Your wife…?” “She died when Maddy was two weeks… — Elizabeth Berg Marriage Copy Share Image
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the… — Elizabeth Berg Difficulties Copy Share Image
“The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard… — Elizabeth Berg Adversity Copy Share Image
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and… — Elizabeth Berg Compass Copy Share Image
“People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved.… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Contemplation 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
“Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what… — Elizabeth Berg Human beings 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
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry… — Elizabeth Berg Cry Copy Share Image
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. — Elizabeth Berg Communication Copy Share Image
“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms… — Elizabeth Berg Flower Copy Share Image
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one… — Elizabeth Berg Art 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 Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Brain Copy Share Image
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the… — Elizabeth Berg Dating Copy Share Image
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am… — Elizabeth Berg Grateful Copy Share Image
When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the… — Elizabeth Berg Comfort Copy Share Image
I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an… — Elizabeth Berg Army Copy Share Image
