The Dream Lover Quotes

“´´I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to ´´hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.´´ I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.´´”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover

“I tell you, I will never understand the mystery of love. A woman comes to a man because she wants only him; then she cannot bear the sound of air moving in and out of his nostrils. She cannot bear the sight of his shadow upon the pavement!”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover

“I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“It is early morning; outside, the sky is dark and the trees move dramatically in the wind. Soon a storm will come. I want to live to see it. This is the way of nature: to persuade us around one more bend, to beckon us to behold one more vista.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Souls are ageless and care nothing for external circumstances.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke. I alone know the latent force hidden within me. I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love. —George Sand”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“too much contemplation turns to melancholy, and gaiety must then come to the rescue.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“all of our lives, we long to know what our future will be. It is a mercy we do not know.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Do not carry remorse for anything in the past; in the end, it is only prideful. Let peace dwell inside you, live your life in joy, and give thanks that God has come to you in this way.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“The heart is a small muscle with tremendous strength;”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“But finally my own version of God came to me in a dream, complete with a name: Corambe. He was a warm and compassionate being with a tender and unwavering regard for me. He had the humanity of Jesus and the radiant beauty of the angel Gabriel. He was graceful and poetic and ever attentive to my feelings. And though he was a male, he nonetheless dressed oftentimes in women’s clothes.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and wherefores of how I chose to conduct myself? In the end, there is but one answer to every question, whether it is spit at me or made as gentlest inquiry: I was I.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover

“rise to the same sun and sleep beneath the same moon,” she often”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“myself? In the end, there is but one answer to every question, whether it is spit at me or made as gentlest inquiry: I was I.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Always be kind and comport yourself well, my child, for that will be your only happiness in life.” “You mean that I will otherwise be unhappy?” “Yes,” she said, “everyone has times of sorrow, but you will have more than most. And also you will have much to forgive.” “But why?” “Because it will happen that you will have to forgive the only source of happiness you will know.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“But if a husband needed to be away from his wife in order to live his life more fully, the wife experienced a loneliness made worse by humiliation.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover

“Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover

“I step across any reflections that are too dark with great strides, and when I am in my right mind, I find life acceptable because it is eternal. You call that my dreaming. I call it my faith and my strength. No, nothing dies, nothing is lost, nothing ends, whatever you may say. —George Sand, in a letter to Delacroix”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“The only thing wrong in making love was being intimate with one you in fact did not love.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Love purifies everything”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“beret sleeves.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Love begins as a rhapsody and ends as a dirge.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“As far as I am concerned, the balance between men and women is all wrong, and there seems little interest on the part of men for changing that. Men know that women need them, and because of that, they acquire an elevated self-confidence. Women, rather than acknowledging their own importance in a relationship, focus instead on their need for it, and in the process they lose their self-confidence. I search in vain for equality in a relationship, and for someone who will want all that I have to give. What is the answer, do you think?”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Most important, my mother welcomed friends and strangers alike to her table. If you came home with someone you had just met on the street, she would share what she had with them, showing them the same face no matter who they were or where they came from. Her belief was this: No matter their station in life, people were united by virtue of their humanity. “We all rise to the same sun and sleep beneath the same moon,”she often told me. Only if someone was false or haughty or superior did she display her caustic side to them.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“The dishes we ate from were not translucent china but, rather, the heavy white plates common in less expensive cafés. Still, the food served on them was prepared by my mother, and I believed then, as I do now, that it makes a difference in taste when one’s thoughts and feelings and hands are employed in what one serves.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand