Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Not only was I removed from my own people. Now I was invisible to them.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

206. “Grief is not a contest.”

— Julie Berry

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

212. “My hurt wouldn’t keep silence.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

215. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

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

— Julie Berry

228. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

231. “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

232. “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

233. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

236. “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

237. “These moments belong to forever.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

239. “Was my gladness sin?”

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240. “There is no goddess to forgive me for what I never did.”

— Julie Berry

241. “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

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

— Julie Berry

243. “But you belong with me.”

— Julie Berry

244. “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.”

— Julie Berry

245. “We were in God’s hands, so who could harm or threaten us?”

— Julie Berry

246. “We must seize the daylight.”

— Julie Berry

247. “Paradise had stiff competition in our corner of Creation.”

— Julie Berry

248. “He almost added, “I’m sure he’s fine.” But I cautioned him against it. Lies are worse than no comfort at all. Especially to a mind already scorched by the truth.”

— Julie Berry

249. “Morning larks called to one another from the shallows at the river’s edge, and the sky began to silver behind the friar like a halo.”

— Julie Berry

250. “We sisters can always find each other.”

— Julie Berry