313 Quotes by 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.

I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to ‘hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.’ I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.

The one to tell. The one to be told by. For him, that was marriage.

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.

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

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

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

Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.

And she finally told Nola that she was so worried about whether she could love two children, about whether she could make room in her heart for as much love as she felt for Bobby. Wasn’t it betraying Bobby, to love another child? And Nola told her what her sister Patricia had said, after having her second. Patricia said she felt like she’d grown a second heart.