Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Would those who knew me ever recognize me? I couldn’t recognize myself.”

— Julie Berry

152. “You’re a good soldier and a fine musician,” Fish said. “Don’t want to lose you.” And a human being, Fish.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

155. “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.”

— Julie Berry

156. “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?”

— Julie Berry

157. “Paradise had stiff competition in our corner of Creation.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

159. “You pray the worst will never happen, and then you meet someone to whom it has.”

— Julie Berry

160. “Odd cases like his intrigued me.”

— Julie Berry

161. “It’s not easy, overseeing love in its toddler phase. It’s a noisy, chattering, babbling thing.”

— Julie Berry

162. “How could she be immune to fear?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

164. “But I also saw a city still bruised and bleeding from years of crushing war. I saw souls darkened by loss and bitterness in the crusades. I saw faith destroyed after the brutality we’d endured in its name.”

— Julie Berry

165. “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

166. “He wasn’t exactly handsome, not at first glance, but there was something in those dark brown eyes that might cause Hazel to forget Chopin for a moment or two. If she would ever look up.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

168. “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

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

— Julie Berry

170. “People are nothing but vexation. I avoid them.”

— Julie Berry

171. “Let them start their dreadful wars, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this.”

— Julie Berry

172. “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.”

— Julie Berry

173. “God is patient, and with the young, always patience is needed.”

— Julie Berry

174. “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.”

— Julie Berry

175. “I wouldn’t have believed that after so much pain, my heart could still handle this kind of joy.”

— Julie Berry

176. “Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

177. “A glorious future opened before me of friendship, belonging, service, and joy.”

— Julie Berry

178. “To say nothing is an answer of a kind. To answer is another.”

— Julie Berry

179. “I didn’t know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the singing bird, and tasted the dry Spanish dust.”

— Julie Berry

180. “God does not shield the good from dying cruelly here.”

— Julie Berry

181. “Everyone, I found, was seeking something.”

— Julie Berry

182. “Her wide eyes beheld him in the darkness. Like lamps, they captured the glow of the rising crescent moon. Hope filled his breast. Every rushing breath fired him with strength and courage. She was here. Safe. He’d found her. If she would come with him, he could conquer all enemies. If she would be his, their souls together would enter paradise.”

— Julie Berry

183. “These moments belong to forever.”

— Julie Berry

184. “All contracts with the dead are broken,′ said His Excellence.”

— Julie Berry

185. “Was my gladness sin?”

— Julie Berry

186. “There is no goddess to forgive me for what I never did.”

— Julie Berry

187. “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.”

— Julie Berry

188. “All the miles, all the hours, watching, waiting, hunting, pretending. God had heard his prayers and brought him to this moment.”

— Julie Berry

189. “But you belong with me.”

— Julie Berry

190. “But all hugs must end, so they pulled apart, just a little. That hurt too much, so he rested his forehead and nose upon hers. Sometimes happiness is just about more than a body can bear.”

— Julie Berry

191. “We were in God’s hands, so who could harm or threaten us?”

— Julie Berry

192. “We must seize the daylight.”

— Julie Berry

193. “He almost added, “I’m sure he’s fine.” But I cautioned him against it. Lies are worse than no comfort at all. Especially to a mind already scorched by the truth.”

— Julie Berry

194. “Morning larks called to one another from the shallows at the river’s edge, and the sky began to silver behind the friar like a halo.”

— Julie Berry

195. “We sisters can always find each other.”

— Julie Berry

196. “How quickly the ax is thrown.”

— Julie Berry

197. “In heaven, there are neither nobles nor peasants. Only children of God.”

— Julie Berry

198. “In all that crowded beach, it was only we two.”

— Julie Berry

199. “Someday you will learn that the subtle power is the most potent. Influence is enough to turn the world from its course and align it to yours.”

— Julie Berry

200. “For one sweet chiming moment, heaven was all around us. All things were possible, and kindness and love could conquer any sorrows, any fears.”

— Julie Berry