Frases de Elizabeth Berg

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

“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.”

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

“Don't let your habits become handcuffs”

“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”

“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.”

“Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.”

“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.”

“Sometimes you know before you know.”

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

“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.”

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

“books are like confort food without the calories”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”

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

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

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

“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.”