Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Goddess, I tell you, you do not fight fair.”

— Julie Berry

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Julie Berry

156. “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

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

— Julie Berry

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “But old bones prefer their rest.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

163. “These thoughts were blades, and there was no point reopening cuts.”

— Julie Berry

164. “If you seek to silence me, I will only cry more urgently.”

— Julie Berry

165. “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

166. “A lover knows her beloved’s voice.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

168. “Was my gladness sin?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

170. “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

171. “When I trip and fall, then?” She hoped this would come across as a bit of a joke. He pressed his hand a shade more firmly into her back. “I won’t let you fall.” Nor did he.”

— Julie Berry

172. “Some illnesses, the eye doesn’t see.”

— Julie Berry

173. “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

174. “My hurt wouldn’t keep silence.”

— Julie Berry

175. “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

176. “They even convict and execute the dead.”

— 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. “Apollo, you remember what this felt like, for musicians first experiencing the baptism of fire that was jazz.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

181. “The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end of everything.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

183. “POOR MORTALS. I feel for them. That evening in Paris couldn’t be described in its full richness, its second-by-split-second splendor, not if they spent decades trying to tell it. And that’s just one of their nights. They rack them up by the thousands, yet they still get up each morning and tie their shoes. You have to admire them. They are so very brave to keep on living.”

— Julie Berry

184. “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

185. “How quickly does a fire fanned and fed by friends grow tall.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

187. “How quickly the ax is thrown.”

— Julie Berry

188. “Grief is not a contest.”

— Julie Berry

189. “James leaped to his feet. That looked too eager, he realized, so he stiffened. He hadn’t a clue what to do with his face.”

— Julie Berry

190. “Her body, I considered, wasn’t all of her that was starving and wounded.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

192. “To find her, and not keep her, pierced my heart.”

— 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. “Loving him made me rich in ways I’d too long been poor.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

198. “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

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

— Julie Berry

200. “All nature, I felt, celebrated my joy with me. Blue, blue, blue were the sky and the sea, golden the hazy sunlight.”

— Julie Berry