Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

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

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108. “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

109. “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

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

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

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113. “Paris was made for two.”

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

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

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116. “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

117. “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

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

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119. “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

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

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

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122. “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

123. “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

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

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “If you think I can live without you, Miss Windicott,” James said, “You don’t know me at all.”

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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. “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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130. “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

131. “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

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

— Julie Berry

134. “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

135. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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142. “Goddess, I tell you, you do not fight fair.”

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143. “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.”

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144. “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

145. “He wished he could peel off the war like a scab. All he wanted now was to be was a chap with a lovely girl at his side. Even if his uniform was all he had to wear.”

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

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

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148. “There are no words for this. Like the flesh, like a prison cell, so, too, are words confining, narrow, chafing, stupid things incapable of expressing one particle of what I felt, what I feel when I see my beloved’s face, when he takes me in his arms.”

— Julie Berry

149. “It is no blasphemy to blame me when a love is lost. Only to surround a heart in hatred, prejudice, greed, or pride until I can no longer find it at all.”

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150. “Pick any name, and watch for it long enough, and send up a silent prayer of thanks when you don’t find it on a death list, and pretty soon, if what you feel isn’t love, what is it?”

— Julie Berry