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. Elizabeth Berg More Quotes by Elizabeth Berg More Quotes From Elizabeth Berg I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either. Elizabeth Berg believe children thinking 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. Elizabeth Berg trying men thinking Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time. Elizabeth Berg borrowing Sometimes you know before you know. Elizabeth Berg knows sometimes Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands Elizabeth Berg husband appreciation moving I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered. Elizabeth Berg eye loss sleep But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation. Elizabeth Berg gratitude rocks art Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think. Elizabeth Berg reflection prayer men There is incredible value in being of service to others. Elizabeth Berg service-to-others values incredibles There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg long-distant-relationship long-distance-relationship letting-go I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to. Elizabeth Berg able might Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. Elizabeth Berg road-trip disease mind I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I wondered what his life was like now. Did he ever think of us? I wanted to hate him, but I couldn't; I didn't know him well enough. Instead, I wondered about him occasionally, with a confused kind of longing. There was a place inside me carved out for him; I didn't want it to be there, but it was. Once, at the hardware store, Brooks had shown me how to use a drill. I'd made a tiny hole that went deep. The place for my father was like that. Elizabeth Berg girl mother beautiful I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. Elizabeth Berg radio sound quiet It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it. Elizabeth Berg sunshine strong dark My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place. Elizabeth Berg kites mind heart 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. Elizabeth Berg risk important writing 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. Elizabeth Berg easier priests people In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading. Elizabeth Berg senior mother summer This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first. Elizabeth Berg dating girl boys
