313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.

Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls – like comfort food without the calories.

She believes that her last chance for love just died, and her last chance was her first love, and there is something about that that is awfully hard to bear. Think about it. To know you’re at the end of hoping for love and to realize that something else will have to do, if you’re going to have any reason to go on.

He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow.

Oh, why isn’t there a Community Center for People Who Need a Little Something? If people would only tell the truth about the way they felt, it would be busy all the time. There could be folding chairs arranged in groups, people sitting there saying, “I don’t know, I just wanted to come here for a while.” I.

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That’s all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.