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Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.

Berg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, but later ended up with a nursing degree . Her writing career started when she won an essay contest in Parents magazine. Since her debut novel in 1993, her novels have sold in large numbers and have received several awards and nominations, even though some critics have tagged them as sentimental. She won the New England Book Awards in 1997.The three novels Durable Goods, Joy School, and True to Form form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Most recently, her essay "The Pretend Knitter" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013. Wikipedia  

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Famous Elizabeth Berg Quotes

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

Elizabeth Berg

Variant: There is love in holding, and there is love in letting go.
Source: The Year of Pleasures

“Don't let your habits become handcuffs”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: True to Form

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“books are like confort food without the calories”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Home Safe

“Sometimes you know before you know.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Range Of Motion

Elizabeth Berg Quotes

“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Talk Before Sleep

“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

“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Art of Mending

“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

Source: Joy School

“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

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Talk Before Sleep

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“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

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.”

Elizabeth Berg

“I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Pull of The Moon

“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

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“You don't get everything all at once. You wait.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Until The Real Thing Comes Along

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?”

Elizabeth Berg

Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“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

Source: The Year of Pleasures

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