“A glorious future opened before me of friendship, belonging, service, and joy.” — Julie Berry Friendship Copy Share Image
“Home was each other. Not walls, but the adventure of the search to find them.” — Julie Berry Adventure Copy Share Image
“The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end… — Julie Berry Autumn nights Copy Share Image
“Much marital woe, she reflected, might be prevented by teaching little tozets and tozas early how to properly fight with one another.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“Not only was I removed from my own people. Now I was invisible to them.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“All the miles, all the hours, watching, waiting, hunting, pretending. God had heard his prayers and brought him to this moment.” — Julie Berry God Copy Share Image
And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue? — Julie Berry Boys Copy Share Image
“What I knew him to be was a survivor, and that was what I feared most.” — Julie Berry Fear Copy Share Image
“All was murkiness, now, the landscape and woods, and far below, the dark brooding sweep of the sea. From a limb he… — Julie Berry Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their… — Julie Berry Afterlife Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the… — Julie Berry Language Copy Share Image
“It is a mercy, they say, to kill quickly those souls bound for the pyre. A mercy that also ensures the job… — Julie Berry Compassion Copy Share Image
“But it was a pitiable thing to watch a human soul treated worse than one would ever treat a donkey. It always… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't have believed that after so much pain, my heart could still handle this kind of joy.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“To love as my beloved does, I must love all those whom he loves. In heaven, there are neither nobles nor peasants.… — Julie Berry Beloved Copy Share Image
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you… — Julie Berry Baptism Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Will we stay here? Will we journey on? Today is not a day for answering such questions" -Judith” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“I understand you're a common street thief?" Peter bristled. "Hardly a common one.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“If ever I'd lied my way out of trouble before, oh, Mamà's magic, don't fail me now.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“I can wait patiently for many things, but the sun might set before you finish a thought.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“Now I am all alone. My only comfort is my sweet little cat. I'm just an old woman, waiting to die.” — Julie Berry Cats Copy Share Image
“If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.” — Julie Berry Love Copy Share Image
“This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“Would those who knew me ever recognize me? I couldn't recognize myself.” — Julie Berry Copy Share Image