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1. "I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life." ~ Elizabeth Berg

2. "I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go." ~ Elizabeth Berg

3. "Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on." ~ Elizabeth Berg

4. "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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

8. "*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard." ~ Elizabeth Berg

9. "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 80talking about marriage and husbands" ~ Elizabeth Berg

10. "It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise." ~ Elizabeth Berg

11. "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

12. "We're so far away from those stars" ~ Elizabeth Berg

13. "For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves." ~ Elizabeth Berg

14. "Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness." ~ Elizabeth Berg

15. "She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not above spitting on her desk to rub out a coffee stain. She will never be an athlete, or a mathematician, or a skinny person, or someone whose heart isn't snagged by the sight of fireflies on a summer night and the lilting cadence of a few good lines of poetry." ~ Elizabeth Berg

16. "Nona leans forward, "I had-a love."I nod."You know how it was? It was like-a trees. Oak and elm." Her voice has been soft, like it was lost in memory, but now she stares at me, her eyes narrowed, and she makes a fist and pounds the side of her chair. "The roots, they bound-a together, but the trees, they are free. You know what it's-a mean?" ~ Elizabeth Berg

17. "It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong." ~ Elizabeth Berg

18. "The summer I was ten years old, there was a group of kids in my neighborhood who played together every night after dinner. I often watched them from my window…Every night around nine-thirty or ten, those kids would get called in one by one…I knew the first ones called were full of resentment. But they needn't have been. Nothing ever happened after they left anyway. Things just sort of ended in a slow motion way, like petals falling off a flower. You couldn't have people leave like that and have anything good happen afterward. Whoever was left couldn't pay much attention to anything other than waiting for their turn to get called in. So, it wasn't so bad to go first, to head back toward those deep yellow lights and beds made up with summer linens. It was much better than being last, when you would be left standing there alone, finally going in without anybody calling you." ~ Elizabeth Berg

19. "The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen." ~ Elizabeth Berg

20. "There is love in holding and there is love in letting go." ~ Elizabeth Berg

21. "Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given." ~ Elizabeth Berg

22. "People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important." ~ Elizabeth Berg

23. "There I was, waiting, afraid I'd never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same." ~ Elizabeth Berg

24. "You don't get everything all at once. You wait." ~ Elizabeth Berg

25. "You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart." ~ Elizabeth Berg

26. "Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you" ~ Elizabeth Berg

27. "there's always a hope, you never know." ~ Elizabeth Berg

28. "I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times." ~ Elizabeth Berg

29. "You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges." ~ Elizabeth Berg

30. "I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace." ~ Elizabeth Berg

31. "She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead." ~ Elizabeth Berg

32. "I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?" ~ Elizabeth Berg

33. "You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & 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?" ~ Elizabeth Berg

34. "Don't let your habits become handcuffs" ~ Elizabeth Berg

35. "Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked." ~ Elizabeth Berg

36. "books are like confort food without the calories" ~ Elizabeth Berg

37. "Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time." ~ Elizabeth Berg

38. "We ate, we slept, we formed our kaleidoscopic relationships and marched ever forward. We licked chocolate from our fingers. We arranged flowers in vases. We inspected our backsides when we tried on new clothes. We gave ourselves over to art. We elected officials and complained. We stood up for home runs. We marked life passages in ceremonies we attended with impatience and pride. We reached out for new love when what we had died, confessing our unworthiness, confessing our great need. We felt at times that perhaps we really were visitors from another planet. We occasionally wondered if it was true that each of us was making everything up. But this was a wobbly saucer; this was thinking we could not endure; we went back to our elegant denial of unbreachable isolation, to refusing the lesson of being born alone and dying that way, too. We went back to loving, to eating, to sleeping, to marching and marching and marching along." ~ Elizabeth Berg

39. "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

40. "How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?" ~ Elizabeth Berg

41. "If I could just have him until the day was over. Just a few more hours. But he was gone. I clasped my hand tightly over my mouth and felt a trembling that started deep inside move out to make all of me shake. I had a mighty impulse, it truly was mighty, to rise to my feet and howl. To overturn the chair and nightstand, to rip at my clothes, to bring down the very walls around us. But of course I did not do that. I pulled an elemental sense of outrage back inside and smoothed it down. I forced something far too big into something far too small, and this made for a surprising and unreasonable weight, as mercury does. I noticed sounds coming from my throat, little unladylike grunts. I saw that everything I'd ever imagined about what it would feel like when was pale. Was wrong. Was the shadow and not the mountain. And then, "It's all right," I said, quickly. "It's all right." To whom? I wondered later." ~ Elizabeth Berg

42. "We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life." ~ Elizabeth Berg

43. "No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years." ~ Elizabeth Berg

44. "She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here." ~ Elizabeth Berg

45. "A family is no place for privacy!" ~ Elizabeth Berg

46. "Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple." ~ Elizabeth Berg

47. "Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift, if not liftoff." ~ Elizabeth Berg

48. "The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further" ~ Elizabeth Berg

49. "If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it." ~ Elizabeth Berg

50. "I was downstairs, reading."" Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared."Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and soft-looking outside the window, all the stars out. You have just on light on, you know, and it seems to pour onto the page. Makes the book seem better. You are this little island, just up alone with a book. And you heard the night sounds of the house...It's so interesting to me, that sound. Time. The measure of it." ~ Elizabeth Berg

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