Elizabeth Berg, The Year Of Pleasures Quotes

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.