Earth's the Right Place for Love Quotes

“the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“To me, that’s what makes a real marriage. You forgive each other. You do for each other. You try to help each other be better people.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“You know, if I’ve learned anything in my life, it’s this: you can push away everything but love. It will not leave. It will wait. Unto death, it will wait. You might as well accept it. You might as well give it freely, too—even more than freely. Anything else is pure exhaustion.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“There was playing with fire, and then there was setting yourself on fire.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“Easier to stay with grief than to try to forget it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“He was above all a man who made himself content with his circumstances. He had known the hammer of misfortune, and he knew as well the salvation that could follow.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“life is unsure, and risky, and how, although we seem to insist on counting on things—and depending on them, making all these assumptions that are not ours to make, really—the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now.
'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mean, Arthur? Because when you look with the eyes of love, what you see is beautiful. Even an ugly dog---you know what I mean. You've probably seen Mr. Blesoff and his terrible little dog that I don't even know what it is. But Mr. Blesoff acts like he's Lassie.
What matters is not what girls look like, even though I know, I know: you're young, you like the pretty girls, you got the engine running. But what matters is who they are. In their soul. What you want, Arthur, is someone you see eye-to-eye with. Someone you can laugh with. But most important, you want someone you can cry with.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn’t run away. You stayed. His mother had told him that. His mother had demonstrated that.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“between you and the one you loved, you didn’t run away.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“He wanted to be the guy standing in the dimness by their kids’ beds as Nola kissed them, and then he would kiss them, too. “Night,” he’d say. Why did that single word offer so much comfort? He guessed it was because it said so much. Home. Safety. The prospect of another day together as soon as morning came. He wanted to walk down the stairs to the living room afterward, and sit with Nola in the lamplight and talk.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn’t run away.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“Earth’s the right place for love.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“progress he’d made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn’t help it; he started whistling.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“You just sat with her and right away you started being treated like a popular person.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“every person was like a box of magic:”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“He’d come to realize people were made for that: sharing, being with one another.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“You know, Arthur,” his mother said, “in time, you will find that little bits of happiness will make their way inside you and stay there. One little thing, and then one thing more. And then you’ll realize that you’re okay. You’ll be okay, son, I promise you. You’ll never forget him and you’ll never stop missing him. But you’ll be okay. And for you to be okay doesn’t take a single thing away from Frank.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“Working in the garden shows me the naturalness of it all, helps me to see that as much as I might resist the notion, I’m only one part of a bigger picture.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“I love your father not only despite his faults, but maybe because of them. Not that I ever wanted him to hurt Frank or you or anyone else. Not that I admire or condone a lot of his behavior. But he reveals himself to me in being the imperfect person that he is. And I do the same. I believe that when we show each other our frailties, or admit to our mistakes, we are asking not only for forgiveness but for help in changing. To me, that’s what makes a real marriage. You forgive each other. You do for each other. You try to help each other be better people.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“Marriage is a funny thing. It only really makes sense to the ones who are in it together, and not even always then.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

“he was learning a lot about the kind of loneliness some people endured. He”
― Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love