313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we’re born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

Nobody knows what goes on in other families, because families lie about themselves to other people. Not only to other people but to one another. And to themselves.

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.

As for mending, I think its good to take the time to fix something rather than throw it away. Its an antidote to wastefulness and to the need for immediate gratification. You get to see a whole process through, beginning to end, nothing abstract about it. You’ll always notice the fabric scar, of course, but there’s an art to mending. If you’re careful, the repair can actually add to the beauty of the think because it is a testimony to its worth.

One good thing about someone really liking something you have is that you appreciate it yourself all over again.

Are these real diamonds?” I once asked, and she said, “Why have them if they’re not?

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

Men were ever men.

I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.