Night of Miracles Quotes

“real love is when the other person is your best friend and you shouldn’t have to work hard around them, it should be, like, more natural, and you just want to be with them even if you’re not doing anything.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“Never think winter will last when spring is equally inevitable.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“It’s good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you’re only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you’d be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That’s life. You’re born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“No. Real love isn’t like that. My dad says real love is when the other person is your best friend and you shouldn’t have to work hard around them, it should be, like, more natural, and you just want to be with them even if you’re not doing anything.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“Kids don’t really see old people. A lot of people don’t.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“That’s life. You’re born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“There’s always hope when a kid—or an adult, for that matter—likes to read.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“Lincoln sits on the chair and removes his shoes. Then he climbs in bed beside his mother, who does not respond.

Jason hopes no one comes in and tells Lincoln to get off the bed. Because he would have to kill that person.

He sits in the chair and watches as Lincoln touches his mother's hand, then holds it.

"The puppy has a name," he tells her.

Nothing.

Lincoln moves closer to Abby and closes his eyes.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“What Maddy has come to believe is that certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it’s wrong; and if they move in that direction, that’s wrong, too.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you’d be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That’s life. You’re born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“What she knows now is that no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“IF YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“One good thing about someone really liking something you have is that you appreciate it yourself all over again.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“hope you are rich in love, now and forever….”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“her heart has opened.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“Life is funny, isn’t it? Funny in the way you can never predict not only what will happen, but who you’ll become.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“someone had her back, whether he was right with her or not. If he was in the world, he was watching over her. Nola comes closer,”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“how accepting children can be—must be.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“You take one step of pure and good intention and the universe accommodates.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“dying for something to finally come.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“Funny how important those birds have become to her. But people need something to depend on. They need something to love.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“you think that your pushing me so hard for something you wanted made me kind of necessarily resist it? Would you admit that, would you say that you pushed way too hard?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be? This is a question many people have difficulty answering. Not Iris Winters. She knows the day, and she knows exactly how she’d change what happened.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“warmth of her house settles around her. Come here, dearie, says the kitchen. Come and have a nice slice of cake.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“specific miracle,”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“It’s good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you’re only a few steps away from relief.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“If there’s one thing Lucille hates, it’s how science has to rain on whimsy’s parade:”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles

“When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you’d be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That’s life. You’re born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig. She”
― Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles