Julie Berry Quotes & Sayings

Each of us could be under a cloud of suspicion for the rest of our lives."
"A black spot," Dour Elinor intoned. "A blemish upon our maiden purity."
"Oh, no, surely not," disgraceful Mary Jane replied. "Not for such a trifling thing as neglecting to mention the death of a headmistress and her nasty brother. No one could really be upset over that. It takes much more fun to leave a blemish upon one's maiden purity. — Julie Berry

That won't excuse me for presuming to give my heart to you. It's not your fault you broke it. — Julie Berry

You." I gasped.
"Me," he agreed, amused. — Julie Berry

I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I? — Julie Berry

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

La luna hung beautifully bright over the horizon, in a sky still dark. Cold breezes blew over the river and ruffled the tall grasses along the bank, making them rustle and chatter. In their waving fronds I sensed small animals stirring. The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn. — Julie Berry

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

Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to save me. And now, to save myself, I take it back. — Julie Berry

These voices from the past had arisen like ghosts demanding to be heard. — Julie Berry

To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes.
Even more than I already am.
I pledge to give you all the truth that's in me.
And you want me to tell you this. — Julie Berry

But poor as we were, we could afford to think about affection. — Julie Berry

I have no words to save you. — Julie Berry

At our mothers' knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses. — Julie Berry

My head is full of seeing you see me. — Julie Berry

Beauty hovers around you wherever you go, which is why these two poor young men chase after you when you're covered in dirt and dressed in rages. Not beauty of the face or form. Something eternal. — Julie Berry

Only one person in Ely had such a tall, stout frame and such a long, bald, peanut-shaped head. — Julie Berry

Don't be fooled by youth. You're old enough to know what experience is good for. — Julie Berry

Reverend Rumsey's voice droned on. "... And Mrs. Livonia Butt's, for her generous donation of awards-winning butter, so ingeniously sculpted into frolicking hams... I'm sorry, that's frolicking lambs... — Julie Berry

We travelers slept under the stars once more. — Julie Berry

This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me lame for a time. — Julie Berry

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer. — Julie Berry

When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit. — Julie Berry

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless. — Julie Berry

There are no words for this. Like the flesh, like a prison cell, so, too, are words confining, narrow, chafing, stupid things incapable of expressing one particle of what I felt, what I feel when I see my beloved's face, when he takes me in his arms. — Julie Berry

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

men think that organizing parties of dozens of riders and hounds to chase down one poor fox is sporting." Louise snorted. "Men's opinions are irrelevant. — Julie Berry

You'll be farther from me than ever, if unreachable wasn't already far enough. — Julie Berry

We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now. — Julie Berry

Come, come," I said. "You may be a lord someday, but you aren't one yet. No need for the courtly manners, and certainly not the moody temper. If you're to be my escort tonight, I insist you be a cheery one. You can even insult me if you like. It always makes you feel better. — Julie Berry

What they don't understand, they destroy. — Julie Berry

How quickly the ax is thrown. — Julie Berry

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well. — Julie Berry

God is patient, and with the young, always patience is needed. — Julie Berry

Strange how my body and its purity have become the town's sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It's as if they were the ones wronged, not me. — Julie Berry

There's quite a difference between "almost never" and "never never". — Julie Berry

You are not like him. No matter what anyone says. — Julie Berry

My guilt was firm in their minds the moment my name was called, the moment my tongue was cut. — Julie Berry

God could give me no greater token of his love for me than you. — Julie Berry

There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this.
I will triumph over you. — Julie Berry

Like rays of glory from heaven, piercing the dusty gloom of the church, making each airborne mote shine like a star. — Julie Berry

Odd cases like his intrigued me. — Julie Berry

Will I
help him make something of his life?
Who will help me? Why does everyone
presume that I, as damaged merchandise,
forfeit any claim to happiness? That I
expect nothing, have no ambitions or
longings of my own? When was it
agreed that my lot would be to gladly
serve as a prop and a crutch for others
who are whole? — Julie Berry

She glowed, not from the firelight, but as if lit from within. I wondered if she were already a ghost. — Julie Berry

But God in heaven is the judge of such things, and to him I plead my case. — Julie Berry

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know. — Julie Berry

Fate punishes those who try to cheat it. — Julie Berry

I don't suppose you believe love could last forever."
I'd hurt him. I looked away, chagrined.
"You're mistaken," I said. "I do believe it could. But it would depend upon the lovers."
He folded his arms and watched me, forcing me to return his gaze. Oh, those eyes.
"And what kind of lovers must they be?" he asked.
The You-and-Me kind? — Julie Berry

There's no justice in this world, the things that happen to people. — Julie Berry

Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other. — Julie Berry

If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough. — Julie Berry

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? — Julie Berry

Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies? — Julie Berry

It's a cold world when no one will touch you. — Julie Berry

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

In every bit of beauty, I see you. — Julie Berry

I don't condone killing, but if killing happens anyway, then I think women go about it much more sensibly. Leave it to men to be loud and violent and messy about the business. It's egotistical of them. It's not enough to eliminate their enemy. No. They must conquer them face to face and watch them plead for mercy, whereas women dispatch victims quickly and silently."
"Men might say poison isn't sporting."
"Yes, and men think that organizing parties of dozens of riders and hounds to chase down one poor fox is sporting. Men's opinions are irrelevant. — Julie Berry

The stars' cold stare reminds me: worse than a sinner, I'm a thief. I steal the touch you would not choose to give me.
You'll never know you've been robbed. — Julie Berry

To say nothing is an answer of a kind. To answer is another. — Julie Berry

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle. — Julie Berry

But I did consider you," Peter assured me. "For quite a while. About half an hour. Beatrix wasn't too happy with me. — Julie Berry

He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey. — Julie Berry

I never heard any angel voice but yours. — Julie Berry

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me. — Julie Berry

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue? — Julie Berry

It's always you ladybird," he says softly "don't you know? — Julie Berry

She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out. — Julie Berry

We must seize the daylight. — Julie Berry

To independence!" added Pocked Louise. "No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an earl's niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiments to the men. — Julie Berry

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn. — Julie Berry

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help. — Julie Berry

I understand you're a common street thief?"
Peter bristled. "Hardly a common one. — Julie Berry