Julie Berry Quotes

#1. She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out.

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#2. I never heard any angel voice but yours.

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#3. In every bit of beauty, I see you.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. We must seize the daylight.

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#8. 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.

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#9. God could give me no greater token of his love for me than you.

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#10. But poor as we were, we could afford to think about affection.

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

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#12. How quickly the ax is thrown.

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#13. But God in heaven is the judge of such things, and to him I plead my case.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. 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.

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#19. I understand you're a common street thief?"
Peter bristled. "Hardly a common one.

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#20. I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. There's quite a difference between "almost never" and "never never".

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#24. God is patient, and with the young, always patience is needed.

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#25. What they don't understand, they destroy.

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#26. 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.

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#27. You." I gasped.
"Me," he agreed, amused.

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#28. These voices from the past had arisen like ghosts demanding to be heard.

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

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

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#31. 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.

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#32. You'll be farther from me than ever, if unreachable wasn't already far enough.

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#33. To say nothing is an answer of a kind. To answer is another.

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#34. It's always you ladybird," he says softly "don't you know?

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#35. Don't be fooled by youth. You're old enough to know what experience is good for.

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#36. I have no words to save you.

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#37. There's no justice in this world, the things that happen to people.

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#38. We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now.

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#39. If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.

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#40. Odd cases like his intrigued me.

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#41. And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

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#42. The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

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#43. Fate punishes those who try to cheat it.

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#44. You are not like him. No matter what anyone says.

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#45. 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.

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#46. Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies?

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#47. We travelers slept under the stars once more.

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

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#49. 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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#50. 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.

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#51. 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.

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#52. It's a cold world when no one will touch you.

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#53. A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

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#54. 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?

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#55. 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.

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#56. My head is full of seeing you see me.

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#57. 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.

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#58. My guilt was firm in their minds the moment my name was called, the moment my tongue was cut.

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#59. At our mothers' knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses.

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

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#61. 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.

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#62. 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...

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#63. 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.

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#64. 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?

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#65. 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.

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