Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “My head is full of song, of notes that chime in my teeth.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

203. “Don’t lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

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

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

— Julie Berry

206. “All the miles, all the hours, watching, waiting, hunting, pretending. God had heard his prayers and brought him to this moment.”

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207. “But you belong with me.”

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208. “How could God burn God?”

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209. “But all hugs must end, so they pulled apart, just a little. That hurt too much, so he rested his forehead and nose upon hers. Sometimes happiness is just about more than a body can bear.”

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

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211. “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

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

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213. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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218. “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

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

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

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

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “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.”

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225. “These moments belong to forever.”

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

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227. “In heaven, there are neither nobles nor peasants. Only children of God.”

— Julie Berry

228. “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.”

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229. “In all that crowded beach, it was only we two.”

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

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

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232. “You pray the worst will never happen, and then you meet someone to whom it has.”

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233. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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240. “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.”

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

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242. “Walls have ears.”

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

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

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

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

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

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248. “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.”

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

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250. “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