Hey. Know what happened to me today?" He sits back and crosses his arms, smiles. "No. What happened to you today?"" Well, I decided to take the bus to work instead of driving? And I got on and I sat behind this woman who started crying. She was very quiet about it, just every now and then she would reach up and wipe away a tear. She had this kerchief on her head, this ratty old flowered kerchief, but it was clean and it was tied very neatly, you know. And she had her purse on her lap and she was holding on to it like it was hands. At first nobody else seemed to notice she was crying, but then everybody around her did. And it got very quiet. And then finally this man got up from the back of the bus, and he came up and sat next to her and put his arm around her, and he didn't say a word, but just stared straight ahead with his arm around her and she kept crying, but it was better now, you could tell, she kind of had a little smile even though she was still crying. And I don't know if he even knew her! I think everybody was wondering the same thing: Does he even know her? I guess he must have known her; otherwise she probably would have leaped up and started screaming or something, but you never know! You just never know, it might have been someone whose heart went out to her because she was crying. And he decided he would comfort her. And she let him. And I think it was a kind of miracle. A living parable or something. Elizabeth Berg
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  1. I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. - Steve Maraboli
  2. Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!. .. Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!. ..... - Gaston Leroux
  3. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
  4. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. - Criss Jami
  5. God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us. - Joshilyn Jackson
More Quotes By Elizabeth Berg
  1. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
  2. There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms...
  3. Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
  4. For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to...
  5. I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.
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