You don't get everything all at once. You wait. Elizabeth Berg More Quotes by Elizabeth Berg More Quotes From Elizabeth Berg I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. Elizabeth Berg eye wanted But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that. Elizabeth Berg strong desire trying When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while. Elizabeth Berg self mean thinking Remember me in your dreams, as I will you. Elizabeth Berg your-dreams dream remember Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. Elizabeth Berg world-war-ii agree heart books are like confort food without the calories Elizabeth Berg calories book 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. Elizabeth Berg thumbs pulse giving Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. Elizabeth Berg moments real lying It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again. Elizabeth Berg smart men children I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? Elizabeth Berg who-cares kind children Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you Elizabeth Berg long-ago long looks No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. Elizabeth Berg mother wish want For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you. Elizabeth Berg real successful people I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one. Elizabeth Berg jewelry-boxes done here-i-am Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar. Elizabeth Berg exotic reading fall Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. Elizabeth Berg friends mean people My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere. Elizabeth Berg compass used self How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything. Elizabeth Berg forget-everything important gone I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society. Elizabeth Berg adversity running believe I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and squeaking, and then: nothing. It stopped. I looked out the window ahead of me and it was clear. I looked out the back and there was the rain, still going. Nobody said anything, but there it was, a near miracle, a rain line, a way of seeing just where something starts, when usually you are just in the middle of it before you notice it. That's how it feels to me now, to not want to be like (that) anymore. I see the line. Elizabeth Berg rain country moving
