Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What they don’t understand, they destroy.”

— Julie Berry

2. “If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?”

— Julie Berry

3. “I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their passing will cause to those they love. It’s more common than you might think. The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.”

— Julie Berry

4. “I envy the mortals. It’s because they’re weak and damaged that they can love.”

— Julie Berry

5. “Grief is not a contest,′ she said.”

— Julie Berry

6. “Lies are worse than no comfort at all. Especially to a mind already scorched by the truth.”

— Julie Berry

7. “It was the dimples. Empires have swiveled on less.”

— Julie Berry

8. “Here; you’ve been carrying that alone for a long time. Let me carry it with you awhile.”

— Julie Berry

9. “Liars are always found out in the end.”

— Julie Berry

10. “What would it be like to die? When the torment and the pain were through, would my soul go to God? Or be trapped, doomed, damned in an exile of darkness and pain?”

— Julie Berry

11. “A voice I knew from a lifetime ago sang out from beyond the darkness.”

— Julie Berry

12. “Let them start their dreadful wars, let destruction rain down, and let plague sweep through, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this.”

— Julie Berry

13. “You’re a brand-new piece of sheet music,′ she said slowly, ’for a song which, once played, I’d swear I’d always known.”

— Julie Berry

14. “And when she sobbed until her eyes were bloodshot and her nose ran, he gave her a handkerchief and took advantage of nothing. Nothing but the chance to say, wordlessly, Here; you’ve been carrying that alone for a long time. Let me carry it with you awhile.”

— Julie Berry

15. “We say a building is made of brick, but it’s the mortar, filling in the cracks, that holds it all together. That provides the strength.” -Aphrodite.”

— Julie Berry

16. “The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.”

— Julie Berry

17. “I don’t believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”

— Julie Berry

18. “Did you know food is infinitely more scrumptious when you’re in love?” -Aphrodite.”

— Julie Berry

19. “Mortals aren’t meant to love perfection. It disillusions and destroys them in the end.”

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20. “Smart means knowing when to talk and when to shut up. Even if you’re right.”

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21. “Heroism is much too heavy a burden to carry.”

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22. “You may ask me, as others have done before, whether it was kindness or cruelty to allow them to meet, so soon before his departure, with so little time to discover each other. Whether the pangs of loss do not invalidate the bliss of love. Especially where war is concerned, and Death runs rampant with his bloody scythe. You may say that it was wicked of me to allow James to find Hazel, and Hazel, James, if three days were all they would have. I don’t call it cruelty. I do not apologize.”

— Julie Berry

23. “It was Archimedes of Syracuse who first said that the shortest distance between two points was the straight line connecting them. Far be it from me to ever cast a shadow upon the wisdom of a Golden Age Greek, but Archimedes had it wrong. The length of the straight line between two people who don’t dare admit they’re in love is infinite.”

— Julie Berry

24. “But poor as we were, we could afford to think about affection.”

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25. “Children will argue, and if you stop them, they never learn how to fix things themselves.”

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26. “The war, she saw, killed more than those whose families received telegrams.”

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27. “I envy the mortals. It’s because they’re weak and damaged that they can love. We need nothing. They’re lucky to need each other.”

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28. “She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out.”

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29. “The scars were a reminder that she came back.”

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30. “God protects and keeps his own, does he not?”

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31. “Joy can do that. It can hurt as much as pain.”

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32. “The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn.”

— Julie Berry

33. “Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You’re a flood, a baptism I’d forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.”

— Julie Berry

34. “Strange how my body and its purity have become the town’s sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It’s as if they were the ones wronged, not me.”

— Julie Berry

35. “He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.”

— Julie Berry

36. “We do not give prizes for rhetoric to the best goodbye. To thank each other for a wonderful time; to separate with a smile, or tears; to part with a final kiss or a final word – no one knows what to do.”

— Julie Berry

37. “Like rays of glory from heaven, piercing the dusty gloom of the church, making each airborne mote shine like a star.”

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38. “I remember the way Mother’s eyes watched him. Like she could never get enough. She spent her life loving him, like I’ve spent mine loving you.”

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39. “It’s a cold world when no one will touch you.”

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40. “La luna hung beautifully bright over the horizon, in a sky still dark. Cold breezes blew over the river and ruffled the tall grasses along the bank, making them rustle and chatter. In their waving fronds I sensed small animals stirring. The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn.”

— Julie Berry

41. “Boldness was intoxicating.”

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42. “God could give me no greater token of his love for me than you.”

— Julie Berry

43. “Don’t be fooled by youth. You’re old enough to know what experience is good for.”

— Julie Berry

44. “I steal my bliss from your agony.”

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45. “She wasn’t quite sure what had happened that night. She hadn’t seen this storm brewing on the horizon. The King of Ragtime was a hurricane, and somehow she’d forgotten to close one of her windows. She’d have to be more careful, next time.”

— Julie Berry

46. “At our mothers’ knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses.”

— Julie Berry

47. “As immovable as Gibraltar and unwelcome as The Plague.”

— Julie Berry

48. “Oh. Oh my,” Dear Roberta began to gasp. “A murder. Oh dear. I think I shall faint.” She fluttered her hand before her face. “Not now, Roberta, there’s a dear,” interjected Mary Jane. “Why bother swooning when there are no young men about to see you do it?”

— Julie Berry

49. “I can wait patiently for many things, but the sun might set before you finish a thought.”

— Julie Berry

50. “You’ll be farther from me than ever, if unreachable wasn’t already far enough.”

— Julie Berry