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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Believe, Adversity, Anchors

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Talk Before Sleep”, p.184, Random House

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• You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Waiting

  Elizabeth Berg (1999). “Until the Real Thing Comes Along”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Self, Compass, Used

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• 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

  People, Easier, Priests

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• 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 high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Feel Better, Sad Music, Honest

  Elizabeth Berg (2011). “Once Upon a Time, There Was You”, p.44, Random House

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• The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Happiness, Real, Heart

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• Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• 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

  Writing, Color, Should Have

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• *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

  Heart, Smell, Giving

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• 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

  Pain, Adorable, Juniors

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• Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Dream, Remember, Your Dreams

  Elizabeth Berg (2007). “Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel”, p.19, Random House

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• Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Fall, Reading, Exotic

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• Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Friends, Mean, People

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• I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and squeaking, and then: nothing. It stopped. I looked out the window ahead of me and it was clear. I looked out the back and there was the rain, still going. Nobody said anything, but there it was, a near miracle, a rain line, a way of seeing just where something starts, when usually you are just in the middle of it before you notice it. That's how it feels to me now, to not want to be like (that) anymore. I see the line.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Country, Rain, Moving

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hate, Legs, Bread

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• 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

  Problem, Truth Is, Unhappiness

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• ...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Dark, Light, Doors

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Likes, Surprise, Happens

  Berg, Elizabeth Berg (2013). “Until The Real Thing Comes Along”, p.43, Random House

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Who Cares, Kind

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• 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 am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Here I Am, Done, Jewelry Boxes

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, White, Dating

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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