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Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness. — Elizabeth Berg

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time. — Elizabeth Berg

That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now — Elizabeth Berg

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. — Elizabeth Berg

If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed. — Elizabeth Berg

It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong. — Elizabeth Berg

I'm sorry! It's just that it hurts so much and it never stops! — Elizabeth Berg

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. — Elizabeth Berg

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go. — Elizabeth Berg

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it. — Elizabeth Berg

There are some things you never say good-bye to — Elizabeth Berg

Wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want. — Elizabeth Berg

there's always a hope, you never know. — Elizabeth Berg

Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple. — Elizabeth Berg

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color. — Elizabeth Berg

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat. — Elizabeth Berg

Souls are ageless and care nothing for external circumstances. — Elizabeth Berg

Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world. — Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes, just when you think you're going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There's only so much room in a human heart. — Elizabeth Berg

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. — Elizabeth Berg

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When — Elizabeth Berg

I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me. — Elizabeth Berg

We're so far away from those stars — Elizabeth Berg

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning. — Elizabeth Berg

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed. — Elizabeth Berg

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

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? — Elizabeth Berg

I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something. — Elizabeth Berg

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. — Elizabeth Berg

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot. — Elizabeth Berg

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either. — Elizabeth Berg

I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds. — Elizabeth Berg

People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important. — Elizabeth Berg

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before. — Elizabeth Berg

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other. — Elizabeth Berg

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. — Elizabeth Berg

There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age. — Elizabeth Berg

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. — Elizabeth Berg

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning ... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish. — Elizabeth Berg

Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would you do, if it were possible? — Elizabeth Berg

I push pain away all day, and the moment I put my arms down it walks into me and has a seat. I — Elizabeth Berg

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths. — Elizabeth Berg

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace. — Elizabeth Berg

Healing hurts, but hurting heals. — Elizabeth Berg

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. — Elizabeth Berg

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you. — Elizabeth Berg

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me. — Elizabeth Berg

Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile? — Elizabeth Berg

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not? — Elizabeth Berg

There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young. — Elizabeth Berg

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you — Elizabeth Berg

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. — Elizabeth Berg

The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further — Elizabeth Berg

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

Sometimes you know before you know. — Elizabeth Berg

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger. — Elizabeth Berg

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm. — Elizabeth Berg

Books are like confort food without the calories — Elizabeth Berg

history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it. — Elizabeth Berg

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. — Elizabeth Berg

I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more. — Elizabeth Berg

No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years. — Elizabeth Berg

A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude. — Elizabeth Berg

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. — Elizabeth Berg

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it. — Elizabeth Berg

CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE'S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO — Elizabeth Berg

For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves. — Elizabeth Berg

I just don't know anymore. God! I'm in a bad mood! It's like walking around in an itchy coat. — 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 the rest of your life. — Elizabeth Berg

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given. — Elizabeth Berg

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. — Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it. — Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. — Elizabeth Berg

You don't get everything all at once. You wait. — Elizabeth Berg

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't. — Elizabeth Berg

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. — Elizabeth Berg

Don't let your habits become handcuffs — Elizabeth Berg

A family is no place for privacy! — Elizabeth Berg

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg

For what reason would I lie to one I so love? — Elizabeth Berg

This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place to find the new thing. — Elizabeth Berg

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry. — Elizabeth Berg

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead? — Elizabeth Berg

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything. — Elizabeth Berg

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.
It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard. — Elizabeth Berg

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let's go ahead and let her have it all. — Elizabeth Berg

...(we) laughed. It was so good to laugh. I felt as though I too were reentering my legitimate self. — Elizabeth Berg

Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls
like comfort food without the calories. — Elizabeth Berg

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place. — Elizabeth Berg

She prefers cats to dogs, which is almost worse than being a conservative. — Elizabeth Berg

Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. I'm just going to grab your horns. — Elizabeth Berg

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg

My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she is repairing herself, hour by hour. — Elizabeth Berg

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered. — Elizabeth Berg

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here. — Elizabeth Berg

Now there's some honest writing! — Elizabeth Berg

There was in it a moment of indignity, nearly comedic - a feeling that I had lost my balance. But I had not. — Elizabeth Berg