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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Dream
Remember
Dreams

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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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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.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are some things you never say good-bye to
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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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.
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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.
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