313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

What she knows now is that no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.

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.

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.

That’s life. You’re born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.

Come over here and light me a cigarette,” she’d said. I’d snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she’d said, “Don’t get started with something you won’t be able to do without.

You don’t get everything all at once. You wait.

Kids don’t really see old people. A lot of people don’t.

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.