Author: Elizabeth Berg

Cites

• Rumi (1)
  • IN: The Art of Mending (2004) Ficion, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing There is a field. I'll meet you there
    FROM: A Great Wagon, (None), ***Poem, Afghanistan
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Talk Before Sleep (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we look at the path, we do not see the sky. We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind
    FROM: Native America, source unknown, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Pull of the Moon (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Upon being asked if she knew how to be fifty, Joni Mitchell answered, "It will make itself known."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Once upon a Time, There Was You (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hold on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't leave?
    FROM: The War of the Roses, (1989), Film, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Handmaid and the Carpenter (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And Nathanael said unto Philip, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
    FROM: Bible, John 1:46, (100), Bible, NULL
• Il-Sung Kim, Eternal President Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1)
  • IN: Tapestry of Fortunes (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No feeling in the world is greater, more ennobling and more sacred than patriotism
    FROM: With the Century, (1992), Book, North Korea
• Jamie Sams (1)
  • IN: Tapestry of Fortunes (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The gift of how to read the omens and hear my fellow creatures to see the place where future lives and sing Great Mystery's songs is what I want to share. It comes from my heart and it is good.
    FROM: Hancoka, Olowanpi, (None), NULL, US
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1)
  • IN: The Dream Lover (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The finest female genius of any country or age
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Franz Liszt (1)
  • IN: The Dream Lover (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She is beyond doubt or comparison the strongest woman and the most astonishingly gifted
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• George Sand (1)
  • IN: The Dream Lover (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 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 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.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Barbara Lazear Ascher (1)
  • IN: The Pull of the Moon (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In midlife, we're left with all that was ever ours to hold in the first place.
    FROM: The Habit of Loving, (1989), Book, US
• Barry Lopez (1)
  • IN: Range of Motion (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think that the world desires to be beautiful. I have found that beauty in mathematics. I have found it in the hunting behavior of wolves, and the way men and women touch each other. I think the world's keenest desire is for beauty, and that our knowledge of how to achieve that is the various forms of behavior and expression that we apply a single word to, which is love.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Robert Francis (1)
  • IN: Range of Motion (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Keep me from going to sleep too soon Or if I go to sleep too soon Come wake me up. Come any hour Of night. Come whistling up the road. Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door. Make me get out of bed and come And let you in and light a light. Tell me the northern lights are on And make me look. Or tell me clouds Are doing something to the moon They never did before, and show me. See that I see. Talk to me till I'm half as wide awake as you And start to dress wondering why I ever went to bed at all. Tell me the walking is superb. Not only tell me but persuade me. You know I'm not too hard persuaded
    FROM: Summons, (None), Poem, US
• Robin Black (1)
  • IN: Once upon a Time, There Was You (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marriage is a funny thing. Even when it's over. Maybe especially then.
    FROM: If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, (2010), Book, Canada
• Colum McCann (1)
  • IN: Once upon a Time, There Was You (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture is, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
    FROM: Let the Great World Spin, (2009), Novel, Ireland
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Never Change (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
    FROM: A Farewell to Arms, (1929), Novel, US
• Dar Williams (1)
  • IN: We Are All Welcome Here (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There’s the wind and the rain And the mercy of the fallen … There’s the weak and the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us
    FROM: "The Mercy of the Fallen", (2003), Poem, US
• Alexander Chase (1)
  • IN: Say When (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sebastian Bach (1)
  • IN: The Last Time I Saw You (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1)
  • IN: The Last Time I Saw You (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every parting gives a foretaste of death as every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
    FROM: Counsels and Maxims, (1851), Book, Germany
• Valerie and Dayton, Jonathan Faris (1)
  • IN: The Last Time I Saw You (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: High school, those are your prime suffering years. You don’t get better suffering than that.
    FROM: Little Miss Sunshine, (2006), Film, US
• Tori Amos (1)
  • IN: What We Keep (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: China Decorates our table Funny how the cracks don’t Seem to show You’re right next to me But I need an airplane I can feel the distance Getting close
    FROM: "China", (1992), Song, US