Joy School
Elizabeth Berg
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”
“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”
“I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?”
“This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.”
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.”
“Nona leans forward, "I had-a love." I nod. "You know how it was? It was like-a trees. Oak and elm." Her voice has been soft, like it was lost in memory, but now she stares at me, her eyes narrowed, and she makes a fist and pounds the side of her chair. "The roots, they bound-a together, but the trees, they are free. You know what it's-a mean?”
“This is the thing about strong people: you can mostly be scared of them but sometimes the way they are makes you feel safe.”
“have never done this except with old-fashioned adults. It feels like we’re in a new club. Gwen is wearing a brown”
“can never get enough time in here.”
“big love, it’s like a powerful blanket, laid down on your land, warming you and protecting you. Something like that. I get out my poetry notebook. History can wait. Today two kids fell asleep in Mr. Spurlock’s class and he didn’t even notice until one started snoring.”
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