Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “She flexed her fingers, as if she were ready to tear justice out of someone’s skin.”

— Julie Berry

102. “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.”

— Julie Berry

103. “Kitty found herself in a moment of peril, and like all great women, she let the moment of crisis infuse her with strength she hadn’t known she possessed.”

— Julie Berry

104. “The pull for you is strong, during a big war.′ Far better for him to voice the words than her. ‘Too many hearts need you. It’s intoxicating, being needed. Is that it?”

— Julie Berry

105. “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

106. “But after two months had passed, time, work, and friendship brought Aubrey to a place where it was possible to hurt, and to laugh, in the same day. He never would’ve guessed he could.”

— Julie Berry

107. “If you love something, you must set it free.”

— Julie Berry

108. “But days like these offered sights more welcome to tired eyes, when autumn colors brushed the leaves, when cooler air meant grapes and olives and relief from August’s oppressive heat. The blue of the sky, sharper than memory, bluer even than la mar itself.”

— Julie Berry

109. “I’d eat a picnic someplace wild and hot. The Congo, perhaps, or the Amazon rain forest.”

— Julie Berry

110. “A loving god would never allow this. And if there was no god at all, surely chance would occasionally favor me, non? Probability alone might sometimes spare me?”

— Julie Berry

111. “I waited once to kiss you and almost lost my chance. I waited for the war to end before asking you to marry me, and you nearly died. If the war’s taught me anything at all, it’s that life is short. I won’t waste any more of it waiting for you.”

— Julie Berry

112. “If they have a deep understanding of love, the French have an even deeper understanding of food and when it is to be eaten. That is, precisely when it’s ready.”

— Julie Berry

113. “I always say chocolate makes all the difference. Well, that and friendliness.”

— Julie Berry

114. “I’d never call it great literature, but I enjoyed Tarzan of the Apes. And Kipling’s Jungle Book. In school, I was partial to Macbeth over Julius Caesar.”

— Julie Berry

115. “Now I am all alone. My only comfort is my sweet little cat. I’m just an old woman, waiting to die.”

— Julie Berry

116. “Modesty wasn’t her forte, but then, a humble god is hard to find.”

— Julie Berry

117. “This was the last time she would make this plea. ‘Let me, too, always be with you.”

— Julie Berry

118. “If I couldn’t knit these two together by the end of a second dance, Zeus might as well make Poseidon the god love, and I’d go look after the fishes.”

— Julie Berry

119. “Kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours. But this is a kiss for the ages. Like a clash of battle and a delicious melding of flesh, rolled together and set on fire.”

— Julie Berry

120. “Judge, jury, and executioner?” protests Ares. “This kangaroo court is a sham.”

— Julie Berry

121. “And nobody knows your weak spots better than sisters. Those prissy little virgins, Artemis and Athena, always looking down their smug, goody-goody noses at her.”

— Julie Berry

122. “You want to get married,′ she said slowly. ‘In two weeks.’ He nodded. ‘Only because I can’t think of a respectable way to do it sooner.”

— Julie Berry

123. “Goddess,” he says, “in the matter of Hephaestus v. Aphrodite, you are charged with being an unfaithful wife. How do you plead?” Aphrodite considers. “Amused.”

— Julie Berry

124. “Smart means knowing when to talk and when to shut up.”

— Julie Berry

125. “She was an angel in blue, halo and all.”

— Julie Berry

126. “If you think I can live without you, Miss Windicott,” James said, “You don’t know me at all.”

— Julie Berry

127. “Her scent was lavender and linen and the warmth of candlelight.”

— Julie Berry

128. “Paris was made for two.”

— Julie Berry

129. “If every loved soul were snatched from death simply because she’d be mourned and missed, the universe would fold in upon itself.”

— Julie Berry

130. “Kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours. But this is a kiss for the ages.”

— Julie Berry

131. “I never heard a man speak so boldly, so rudely to a woman. I never knew words could act like fingers, touching where they ought not, grasping their pleasure at the victim’s expense” -Judith.”

— Julie Berry

132. “Autumn had come in the night. The air bit my throat, and my breath fogged before me. Leaves’ edges had begun to turn, and the lagoon brooded quietly upon the prospect of approaching cold.”

— Julie Berry

133. “The War giveth, and the War taketh away. Blessed be the name of the War.” His vicar back home would’ve had a swift comment on such blasphemy.”

— Julie Berry

134. “But old bones prefer their rest.”

— Julie Berry

135. “Laughing at their own destruction, casual about carnage. Maybe laughing was the only way to survive it all.”

— Julie Berry

136. “Then be a monster,” she said. “Do what you must to survive, so you can come back to me.”

— Julie Berry

137. “Grateful as I was for the safety of my hidden life, I was reminded so often of who I was – an alien in a strange land, far from the world that worked as I wished it would.”

— Julie Berry

138. “God in heaven is our witness, and he will be your judge.”

— Julie Berry

139. “So kill us. Kill us all. Kill my daughters, kill me, kill and kill and kill until all that’s left is to kill each other. And when you do, the bon Dieu, if he’s really there, will be your judge.”

— Julie Berry

140. “Hephaestus wishes he had a bailiff who could club this unruly spectator on the head. But that’s probably not what bailiffs are supposed to do.”

— Julie Berry

141. “Grief is not a contest. What happened was horrible. No one should face it. Especially not from their own countrymen. It’s a crime against humanity. Against decency and reason.”

— Julie Berry

142. “Love and Art go together like baritone and alto, paint and canvas, like sunrise and a burning atmosphere.”

— Julie Berry

143. “Sometimes happiness is just about more than a body can bear.”

— Julie Berry

144. “A nameless girl in hiding is no easy thing to find.”

— Julie Berry

145. “The channel stretched between James and Hazel that night. It looks narrow on a globe, but when it divides two hearts, it might as well be the mighty Atlantic.”

— Julie Berry

146. “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 didn’t admit they’re in love is infinite.”

— Julie Berry

147. “What I knew him to be was a survivor, and that was what I feared most.”

— Julie Berry

148. “He had stumbled upon my gates. I am grateful to my guests.”

— Julie Berry

149. “It’s good to see something that was lovingly and carefully made. The war makes it feel as though all humans have ever done is destroy.”

— Julie Berry

150. “A priest?” bleats Ares. “The god of the Underworld is a Roman Catholic priest?”

— Julie Berry