Quotes from Elizabeth Berg

the palace of we

A living parable

I know you may not stay with me forever," he said just last night, "but I'm so grateful to have you now, and for as long as you can stay.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

He'd come to realize people were made for that: sharing, being with one another.

CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE'S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO

every person was like a box of magic:

just think that we need to collect these joy berries wherever we find them

I'm just saying I think people are meant to be with people. You suffer in a marriage; but alone, you suffer more. Did you ever read that Mark Twain book Extracts from Adam's Diary? Adam thought Eve was a real pain in the ass, talking too much, looking at her reflection in the pond all the time, getting them expelled from Paradise, for Christ's sake! But what he said at the end was that he was better off living outside the Garden with Eve than inside it without her.

some of us create our own prisons for ourselves, we fall into ways of being that we feel we can't change.

It seems like you always are the way you are right now, unless you are a movie star, when people always see you the way you were best.

Go about your business in the best way you know how, and love will find you. You know what they say: It's like a butterfly—you do better letting it land on you than trying to capture it.

You know who does it right? You know who does loving right?" "Who?" "Nobody. I mean, people can't even Ã¢â'¬Â¦ If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat. Do you know what I'm saying?

hope you are rich in love, now and forever….

You just sat with her and right away you started being treated like a popular person.

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

false vision, an unconscious surrender to seeing things another way.

I learned that the frustration and anger that comes up in these situations go both ways: you're frustrated and/or angry with your parents and they're frustrated and/or angry with you.

I am dying of a multitude of feelings

That is the gift of love, not only that you have somebody but that you are changed by somebody.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

In a way, it is as if your refusal to forgive is too much a part of you for you to lose it. Who would you be without it? Not yourself.

I was not like other kids, as my mother was not like other mothers. Forever and ever. This I would tell Photoplay, too. To their great admiration, I was sure.

I'll love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done," he says. Something he once wrote to her in a birthday card when they were still in their twenties. Oh, my. In their twenties. And there it is, slow to come today, but there it is, the feeling of her inside him. She blooms in his heard, and he is suddenly warm.