Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “People are nothing but vexation. I avoid them.”

— Julie Berry

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Julie Berry

164. “Passion, Love, and Beauty,” I told you, Aphrodite. “You know she can no longer have them all.”

— Julie Berry

165. “Sometimes no news is worse. At least, when bad news comes, there is no more wondering if it will.”

— Julie Berry

166. “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

167. “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.”

— Julie Berry

168. “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

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

— Julie Berry

170. “How quickly the ax is thrown.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

174. “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

175. “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

176. “We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I’d too long been poor.”

— Julie Berry

177. “Odd cases like his intrigued me.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

179. “With the Great War in its fourth year, Britons needed cake.”

— Julie Berry

180. “What a day this would have been to strum his gittern and think gentler thoughts. In another world, another age.”

— Julie Berry

181. “He couldn’t help it. He smiled at her, even if his face had forgotten how. She was angry, and so adorably angry, that he didn’t know what to do. That was undoubtedly a very patronizing thing to think, but it didn’t matter. Guilty as charged.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

183. “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

184. “We have a lifetime of catching up to do.”

— Julie Berry

185. “My head is full of song, of notes that chime in my teeth.”

— Julie Berry

186. “Don’t lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

187. “I can take you to the ends of the earth.”

— Julie Berry

188. “Summer came in, with heat enough to melt any desire I felt to live.”

— Julie Berry

189. “But moments were all that were left now.”

— Julie Berry

190. “Lacking a court officer, Hephaestus administers the oath. “Do you solemnly swear to limit the boasting, tell the facts and only the facts, and otherwise keep your great yap shut?”

— Julie Berry

191. “She would’ve liked one more glimpse, to see if she’d imagined something passing between them. Hazel, my dear, you’re an idiot, she told herself. “Excuse me,” said a voice beside her.”

— Julie Berry

192. “She glowed, not from the firelight, but as if lit from within. I wondered if she were already a ghost.”

— Julie Berry

193. “Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies?”

— Julie Berry

194. “They don’t want black musicians in hotel lobbies, but blowing a horn to Jim Europe’s up-tempo beat is fine and dandy.”

— Julie Berry

195. “Giving hope to the dying sounds like mercy to me, not cruelty.”

— Julie Berry

196. “Melvin Brands took bread, and the foot, wrapped in camphored cloth.”

— Julie Berry

197. “I had tried to do right, but once again my best efforts had led to disaster.”

— Julie Berry

198. “You’re the King of Stupid, is what you are.” “Then you’re my loyal subject.”

— Julie Berry

199. “Life, love, neighbors, belonging. Town and home, peace and good name. All smoke and ashes.”

— Julie Berry

200. “Youth makes you bold. Love makes you trusting.”

— Julie Berry