In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.
Elizabeth BergDo 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.
Elizabeth Berg*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.
Elizabeth BergI would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?
Elizabeth BergAs 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.
Elizabeth Berg