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One Quotes by Elizabeth Berg
- One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for…
- There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at…
- 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…
- If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
- This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
- Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
- 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…
- 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…
- No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
- In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of…
- Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
- But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it…
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