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“No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.”

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Elizabeth Berg is a renowned American contemporary writer, born on December 2, 1948. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound character portrayals, which have won her a wide readership. more

“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.”

Children Play Past Black White Pleasure Comfort Shadow Rose Screens Lists Neighborhood Prime Black And White Cream Limbs Roger Petals Sidewalk Sparrows Ginger Raspberries

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“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.”

Eye Black Loss Sleep Remembered Cried Dreamless Sleep

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”

Ifs Men Littles Coffee Brown Drank Dew Goats Mustache

Book:True Grit

Source: True Grit

“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.”

Moving Felt Lines Ready Moving Forward Trapped Looking Back

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“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.”

Mind Known Disease Breathe Cures Road Trip

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”

Ends Stampede

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.”

Mean Girl Enchanted Handwriting Cursive

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”

Acquaintance

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.”

Self Stores Christmas Instant Department Shopping Pathetic Gratification Tactical Instant Gratification Department Stores Shoppers Macy's

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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