Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “That won’t excuse me for presuming to give my heart to you. It’s not your fault you broke it.”

— Julie Berry

52. “You are not like him. No matter what anyone says.”

— Julie Berry

53. “In every bit of beauty, I see you.”

— Julie Berry

54. “I love this boy. In a purely spiritual sense.”

— Julie Berry

55. “Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other.”

— Julie Berry

56. “The length of a straight line between two people who don’t dare admit they’re in love is infinite.”

— Julie Berry

57. “There’s a lesson in it for would-be heroes. The people you save won’t celebrate you. They’ll gather the wood and cheer while you burn”.”

— Julie Berry

58. “The sky glowed with sunrise, like a morning in heaven.”

— Julie Berry

59. “So gently did they fall, like feathers gliding on a breeze. They disappeared, like foxes slipping into their holes. There, and then not there.”

— Julie Berry

60. “Hephaestus would almost worry for the fates, but they’re though old cookies.”

— Julie Berry

61. “I couldn’t tell what was real and what was my own fright.”

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62. “You’re a flood, a baptism I’d forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.”

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63. “We were four people: the children we’d been, and grown strangers now.”

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64. “You’re not really here, are you?” says James. “This is part of my madness?” “Does it matter?” asked Frank. “If it’s madness telling you to marry that girl and be happy, whose advice would you rather have?”

— Julie Berry

65. “My head is full of seeing you see me.”

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66. “Audrey wonders if he’ll die IN his country before he ever gets a chance to die FOR his country.”

— Julie Berry

67. “If he was trying to kill her through kiss deprivation, it was working.”

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68. “There is something wonderful about being in love in a city where you know no one. Public opinion of your behavior isn’t worth a trifle. So, if you want to kiss your girl at the esplanade of the Eiffel Tower, you do.”

— Julie Berry

69. “How curious. How rare. How little we ever know anyone.”

— Julie Berry

70. “That there were females in the world! After weeks at the Front, they were a forgotten miracle, these beings who smelled clean and pleasant, and wore bright colors, and did not go about killing one another!”

— Julie Berry

71. “Coo, coo.” Constable Quill looked, for a moment, like a man regretting his choice of profession, but he plowed onward. “And you say you heard someone cooing in your back garden on Sunday night?”

— Julie Berry

72. “The first casualty of war is the truth.”

— Julie Berry

73. “Reverend Rumsey’s voice droned on. “... And Mrs. Livonia Butt’s, for her generous donation of awards-winning butter, so ingeniously sculpted into frolicking hams... I’m sorry, that’s frolicking lambs...”

— Julie Berry

74. “Sometimes, in the night, I thought of all the ways life could have been different.”

— Julie Berry

75. “How did one nation produce both humble souls and killers?”

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76. “To be needed is one way to be safe. The other is to have money.”

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77. “When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit.”

— Julie Berry

78. “Keeping the whole safe for people to practice their audition pieces seems like the one good reason to fight this war. If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?”

— Julie Berry

79. “These voices from the past had arisen like ghosts demanding to be heard.”

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80. “But the soul burning behind those eyes made me shiver. Ageless, ancient. As if it couldn’t belong to this dull world.”

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81. “May you never face them, little one. But her prayed went unanswered. Frankie is a man now. Private Frank Mason Jr. of the Suffolk Regiment. Stationed in Algeria, bravely fighting the Nazis, just as his father fought the Germans before him.”

— Julie Berry

82. “Beauty hovers around you wherever you go, which is why these two poor young men chase after you when you’re covered in dirt and dressed in rages. Not beauty of the face or form. Something eternal.”

— Julie Berry

83. “You’re seeing a memory sweet as it is. But for your kind, memories of the dead are best seen through the cloudy glass of time and dreams.”

— Julie Berry

84. “My guilt was firm in their minds the moment my name was called, the moment my tongue was cut.”

— Julie Berry

85. “I like to keep a little bit of nervousness simmering. It keeps mortals alert at crucial moments. Sensitive to every detail. It imprints lasting memories. These moments belong to forever” -Aphrodite.”

— Julie Berry

86. “If your bleeding soul doesn’t drive him away, the war will snatch him from you.”

— Julie Berry

87. “But even the best kisses end eventually.”

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88. “Hazel went from stranger and pianist to the reason why the war mattered at all, symbol of all that was pure and beautiful and worth dying for in a broken world.”

— Julie Berry

89. “There’s quite a difference between “almost never” and “never never”.”

— Julie Berry

90. “Only one person in Ely had such a tall, stout frame and such a long, bald, peanut-shaped head.”

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91. “I sit here and watch the world pass by, since I can’t go greet it myself anymore.”

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92. “I need to reassure myself that you aren’t a dream.”

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93. “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.”

— Julie Berry

94. “No one can love me,” she says. “No one.” “What do you mean?” “That is the price,” she tells him, “of being the goddess of love.”

— Julie Berry

95. “That which you tend, you come to adore with the kind of love that bypasses sense and reason.”

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96. “She flexed her fingers, as if she were ready to tear justice out of someone’s skin.”

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97. “Your father’s a coward, Hazy,” he told her. “It’s wrong, what they’re doing. It’s disgusting. It’s unchristian. If I were a man, I’d quit in protest.” She took his hand in hers. “What would you do then?” “That’s just it,” he told her. “I’m a coward. I support this trash to pay my bills. Remember, we’re all God’s children. Be braver than I’ve been.”

— Julie Berry

98. “To independence!” added Pocked Louise. “No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an earl’s niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiments to the men.”

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99. “And so James went from stranger to patriot, hero, bravely shouldering his duty to God, King, and Country. Hazel went from stranger and pianist to reason why the war mattered at all, symbol of all that was pure and beautiful and worth dying for in a broken world.”

— Julie Berry

100. “Here is a new musical phenomenon. Not songs written for black musicians by white composers. Not humiliating parodies that grope for a laugh, joking at the black singers’ expense. Black composers and lyricists, black musicians excellent in their own right. Not merely excellent, but daring and vibrant and wholly original.”

— Julie Berry