313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes you know before you know.

As far as I’m concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

I don’t think you’ve even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone, and here’s what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you’re all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying ‘Where are the apples?

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

I’ll love you forever in darkness and sun, I’ll love you past when my whole sweet life is done.

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.

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. Thank God. The.

I don’t think it’s foolish. I don’t think love is ever foolish.

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 the one who’s here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.