Julie Berry

“Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

“I have no words to save you.”

— Julie Berry

“Don't lose heart, galineta.”

— Julie Berry

“I steal my bliss from your agony.”

— Julie Berry

“My hurt wouldn't keep silence.”

— Julie Berry

“But you belong with me.”

— Julie Berry

“Was my gladness sin?”

— Julie Berry

“How could God burn God?”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

“The sky was soft, a heavenly shade of lavender.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

“People are nothing but vexation. I avoid them.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

“They even convict and execute the dead.”

— Julie Berry

“Here is how my tale ends. It is a bitter ending, but I do not complain. Sorrow finds us all, and the…

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle. Even if that means…

— Julie Berry

“We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in…

— Julie Berry

“There's a lesson in it for would-be heroes. The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while…

— Julie Berry

“Accende lumen sensibus, infunde amorem cordibus, infirma nostri corporis, virtute firmans perpeti.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no…

— Julie Berry

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That…

— Julie Berry

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume…

— Julie Berry

“Grateful as I was for the safety of my hidden life, I was reminded so often of who I was--an alien in…

— 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…

— Julie Berry

“Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to…

— Julie Berry

“To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes. Even more than I already am. I pledge to give you…

— Julie Berry

“Kitty found herself in a moment of peril, and like all great women, she let the moment of crisis infuse her with…

— Julie Berry

“A toast," Smooth Kitty cried, feeling almost giddy, "to self-government. Saint Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies will be run by young ladies…

— 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…

— Julie Berry

There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if…

— Julie Berry

“Her wide eyes beheld him in the darkness. Like lamps, they captured the glow of the rising crescent moon. Hope filled his…

— 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…

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

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

— Julie Berry

“God in heaven is our witness, and he will be your judge.”

— Julie Berry