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Book: The Pull of the Moon
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  1. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    I am so often struck by what we do not do, all of us. And I am also, now, so acutely aware of the quick passage of time, the way that we come suddenly to our own separate closures. It is as though a thing says, I told you. But you thought I was just kidding.
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  2. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.
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  3. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80talking about marriage and husbands
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  4. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.
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  5. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.
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  6. Elizabeth Berg _ The Pull of the Moon

    Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.
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