Julie Berry Quotes
I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.
The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.
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?
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.
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.
And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?
I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.
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.
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?
If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.
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.
