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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

204. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

207. “Don’t lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

211. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

214. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

221. “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

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

— Julie Berry

223. “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

224. “How could God burn God?”

— Julie Berry

225. “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

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

— Julie Berry

227. “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

228. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

235. “Grief is not a contest.”

— Julie Berry

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

243. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry