Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

163. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Julie Berry

171. “Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

175. “My hurt wouldn’t keep silence.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

177. “To love as my beloved does, I must love all those whom he loves. In heaven, there are neither nobles nor peasants. Only children of God.”

— Julie Berry

178. “After all our worries, it was high time for some merriment.”

— Julie Berry

179. “Much marital woe, she reflected, might be prevented by teaching little tozets and tozas early how to properly fight with one another.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

182. “Annihilation has its own je ne sais quoi.”

— Julie Berry

183. “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

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

— Julie Berry

185. “Fly with me,′ he whispered. ‘Maiden most pure. I can carry you far from danger.”

— Julie Berry

186. “What is it about uniforms – what magic spell do they cast?”

— Julie Berry

187. “What do I care if it’s shocking? I am shocking. What was done to me was shocking. I am outside the boundaries forever, no longer decent. I will leave grapes for you in your own home.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

190. “I am sure this will be Mrs. Plackett’s first topic of conversation with her brother when next she sees him,” she said. For a moment Kitty pictured this joyful sibling confrontation taking place before Saint Peter at the pearly gates.”

— Julie Berry

191. “She talked with laughing eyes and a smile on her face, as though she were telling a charming story or a wonderful joke.”

— Julie Berry

192. “We, her daughters, weren’t very holy, heaven knew, but that didn’t mean we held no reverence for holiness.”

— Julie Berry

193. “Fate punishes those who try to cheat it.”

— Julie Berry

194. “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

195. “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

196. “These moments belong to forever.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

199. “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

200. “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