Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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?”

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102. “The sky was soft, a heavenly shade of lavender.”

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

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104. “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.”

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105. “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.”

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106. “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.”

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107. “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?”

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108. “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.”

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

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

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111. “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.”

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

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

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114. “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.”

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115. “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.”

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116. “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.”

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

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

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

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120. “Paris was made for two.”

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

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122. “Stay alert. Anything can happen in a war, but it’s less likely to happen to the man who keeps his eyes open.”

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

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124. “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.”

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125. “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.”

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

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127. “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.”

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128. “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.”

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

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130. “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.”

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

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

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

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134. “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.”

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135. “But God in heaven is the judge of such things, and to him I plead my case.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “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.”

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138. “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.”

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

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

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141. “I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I?”

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142. “All was murkiness, now, the landscape and woods, and far below, the dark brooding sweep of the sea. From a limb he could not see, a nightingale’s song pierced the gloaming.”

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143. “The sorrow. It came in waves. Just when she thought the storm had subsided, it ambushed her all over again.”

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144. “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.”

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145. “But life was muffled. Muted. Even my lightest moments were wrapped in relentless grief and loss, pressed down by the anxious taste of waiting for hopeful news that would never come.”

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146. “Would those who knew me ever recognize me? I couldn’t recognize myself.”

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

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

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

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

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