We Are All Welcome Here Quotes

“I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I wondered what his life was like now. Did he ever think of us? I wanted to hate him, but I couldn't; I didn't know him well enough. Instead, I wondered about him occasionally, with a confused kind of longing. There was a place inside me carved out for him; I didn't want it to be there, but it was. Once, at the hardware store, Brooks had shown me how to use a drill. I'd made a tiny hole that went deep. The place for my father was like that.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“We're all trapped in a body with limitations, even the most able-bodied among us! And we're all guided by minds with limitations of their own. You want to know my philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“I could still taste and smell and hear and see,” she said. “I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“redemptive beauty, I think. Despite her”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“philosophy? It’s this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“You couldn’t keep up with life. It was like fabric running through a sewing machine, everything slipping through your fingers and moving away from you.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“It seemed there was a leak in my life.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“offering of love against fear. I had done it myself, determinedly made cards for my mother thinking that she would then have”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“cogitate.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“what I felt in that embrace was the knowledge that she would never be able to raise me, not by herself.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Negro ideas. But they were just ideas, free-floating and of no color at all.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“I was not like other kids, as my mother was not like other mothers. Forever and ever. This I would tell Photoplay, too. To their great admiration, I was sure.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“loved that he wasn’t afraid of my mother, that he seemed to see past everything and acknowledge her as a person. It was a rare thing. Brooks had gotten all excited and said yes, that was right, he’d thought about that himself, he’d get to work on a design for it at the store tomorrow.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Love does not have legs,” he slowly read, his finger moving along. “It does not have arms. But it move mountains.” He put the paper down at his side,”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“knew it in my brain, anyway; but I was nonetheless reminded of it in my heart in these unexpected and most random of ways. I can only describe it as the way you touch something bare-handed that you just took from the oven. Impossible as it seems, every now and”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Though she could do nothing but stare at me, I feared her, mightily and distinctly. If she had told me to slap my own face, I would have. “Now go to bed,” my mother said, and I did.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“That’s the Jesus truth. It’s a wide, wide world. Sooner you lift up your gaze from your own self, sooner you know that.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Sometimes Suralee and I walked up to the cemetery and lay on the graves. We liked to pretend we were letting dead people speak through us. “I was a hardworking man with a talent for whittling,” Suralee might say from her”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“But for the outstanding fact of polio, my mother was remarkably healthy;”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Life was curiously exhausting but also exhilarating.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here

“Because my mother is a third base.”
― Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here