Tapestry of Fortunes Quotes

“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you’ll stay in a place you’ve outgrown.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I’ve never regretted doing anything in my life as much as I’ve regretted not doing it. There were a few times when in my heart I knew the right thing to do, but I listened to other people, or I didn’t have the guts, or it didn’t make sense, or I don’t know.… There was some false voice inside posing as logic when it was really just my own fear talking. The times I didn’t stay true, didn’t stay congruent, I paid the price.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift, if not liftoff.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too long, and then the only candies left in the box are the squished ones, rejected for their questionable insides. And if I'm honest, I'd have to count myself among those with questionable insides.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Getting lost is the only way to find what you didn’t know you were looking for.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Oh, why isn’t there a Community Center for People Who Need a Little Something? If people would only tell the truth about the way they felt, it would be busy all the time. There could be folding chairs arranged in groups, people sitting there saying, “I don’t know, I just wanted to come here for a while.” I”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that’s what it is, one after the other.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers nearby, freshening my makeup, rather than sitting on a toilet.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Already I’ve seen that when you’re pulled away from your normal routine, it’s as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“There’s nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky. And feel the air on your face. And that you can check high and low and no, nothing in your body is hurting, not one thing. I”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she’s not seen in such a long time? It seems to me that in situations like this, we’re all wondering the same thing: I’m still me; are you still you? A”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I lean in closer to King, close my eyes, and suddenly I am a little girl again, sitting on the grass outside my house one hot summer day, resting after a solitary game of hopscotch. There are Johnny-jump-ups growing out of the cracks in the sidewalk; the clouds are circus animals; there is lemonade in the refrigerator; my shorts are a fine, faded red. My father is due home at any moment, and I like to watch him get out of the car and take long strides toward me, his face full of loving intention. I run to him, and he lifts me up. And then, together, we go inside, toward whatever else might follow. We are full of faith, blessed by it. I remember, now.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Don’t we all want company in some form, are we not attracted to the idea of a body beside us in a thunderstorm, or another voice to help decide on dinner, to share astonishment at the latest political buffoonery or appreciation for the lush sets on Downton Abbey? Are we not, at our most basic, social animals, people who need other people, whether we want to or not?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you’ll stay in a place you’ve outgrown.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I see where all this success has led me. Now I want to see what it’s kept me from.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Fate is a part of our lives. Another part is choice. But the biggest part is the mystery, the great unknowable, about which we feel so many things, including joy.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I think people see death as the hunter, but it’s just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It’s the sound of a record playing in the background.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“...I go up to my room, close the door and sit on my bed, my hands clasped in my lap, and in my chest is a raggedy sadness. Outside, the sun hangs at the horizon, then drops. Day is done." (page 60)”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“What’s the point in loving anything when it will just change or be taken away?” I asked. And she said, “The point in loving is only that. And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing, Cece. I wish you would believe me.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“When he wrote down harebells, he told me that they looked delicate, but that they could grow between rocks.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“We go into the library, that layman’s priory, that paper-scented oasis of quiet industry and calm.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they are given to you. Just”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I never saw the point in going out to fancy restaurants. It’s not that I don’t appreciate good food; I love good food. But why go to all this trouble? Why put on fancy clothes to eat? I”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I feel soothed. When I talk to you, I feel like hanging myself.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“one of the hardest things in life is fessing up to what you want most, because if you do that, and you don’t get it, it’s so hard to be without it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes

“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the girl who got away. And I remembered real soon why I let her get away.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Tapestry of Fortunes