Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “He had stumbled upon my gates. I am grateful to my guests.”

— Julie Berry

152. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Julie Berry

159. “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

160. “Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

164. “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

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

— Julie Berry

166. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

174. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

177. “Don’t lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

181. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

184. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

191. “I will speak, though my sounds are crude. I will use words long denied to me, with no apology for how corrupt they sound. My listeners will hear what they choose to hear.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

193. “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

194. “How could God burn God?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

196. “These rich, white Harvard types. Everything they said sounded like a speech from a candidate for Congress. It was a nice thought, but if so many Americans were already angry at the sight of a black man in uniform, standing tall and proud with a gun in his hand, Aubrey doubted whether a chest full of medals would make a difference.”

— Julie Berry

197. “Will we stay here? Will we journey on? Today is not a day for answering such questions” -Judith.”

— Julie Berry

198. “But it was a pitiable thing to watch a human soul treated worse than one would ever treat a donkey. It always was. No matter how many times I’d seen it before.”

— Julie Berry

199. “Like Ares and Apollo, Hades, Lord of the Underworld, is a man of striking beauty, though serious and grim, with a bloodless precision to his aquiline features. Handsome, though you’d more likely stamp his face on a coin than hope he asks you for a dance.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry