Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

204. “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

205. “How could God burn God?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

207. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Julie Berry

213. “Not only was I removed from my own people. Now I was invisible to them.”

— Julie Berry

214. “Home was each other. Not walls, but the adventure of the search to find them.”

— Julie Berry

215. “Nobody knows the sting of gods’ mockery better than a god. And nobody knows your weak spots better than sisters.”

— Julie Berry

216. “Frankie blithely ignored the scolding, as well-loved children usually do.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

218. “Grief is not a contest.”

— Julie Berry

219. “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

220. “It is a mercy, they say, to kill quickly those souls bound for the pyre. A mercy that also ensures the job gets done. Sometimes the marksman’s arrow finishes the task. Sometimes it’s done by strangling.”

— Julie Berry

221. “We travelers slept under the stars once more.”

— Julie Berry

222. “Please,” Jerold her. “Be with me. Be you, with me. All of you.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

224. “My hurt wouldn’t keep silence.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

227. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

235. “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

236. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

240. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

243. “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

244. “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

245. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

248. “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

249. “These moments belong to forever.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry