Julie Berry famous quotes

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

#Love #Baptism #Soldier

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

#Girl #Boys #Feet

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

#Cheer #People #Woods

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

#Love Is #Young Love #Forever

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

#World #Cold

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

#Kings #Father #Risk

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

#Hands #Miracle #Faces

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

#Letting Go #Real #Independent

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

#Girl #Believe #Miracle

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

#Writing #Editors #Age

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

#Strong #Editors #Stories

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

#Book #Stories #Want