Top 250 Julie Berry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “All contracts with the dead are broken,′ said His Excellence.”

— Julie Berry

202. “Was my gladness sin?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

205. “But you belong with me.”

— Julie Berry

206. “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

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

— Julie Berry

208. “We must seize the daylight.”

— Julie Berry

209. “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

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

— Julie Berry

211. “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

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

— Julie Berry

213. “How quickly the ax is thrown.”

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

— Julie Berry

215. “Someday you will learn that the subtle power is the most potent. Influence is enough to turn the world from its course and align it to yours.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

218. “For one sweet chiming moment, heaven was all around us. All things were possible, and kindness and love could conquer any sorrows, any fears.”

— Julie Berry

219. “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

220. “Odd cases like his intrigued me.”

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221. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

225. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

228. “Don’t lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

229. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

233. “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

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Julie Berry

245. “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

246. “How could God burn God?”

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

— Julie Berry

248. “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

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

— Julie Berry

250. “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