158 Quotes by Julie Berry

This was the last time she would make this plea. ‘Let me, too, always be with you.

Children will argue, and if you stop them, they never learn how to fix things themselves.

I remember the way Mother’s eyes watched him. Like she could never get enough. She spent her life loving him, like I’ve spent mine loving you.

I’d eat a picnic someplace wild and hot. The Congo, perhaps, or the Amazon rain forest.

The war, she saw, killed more than those whose families received telegrams.

It was Archimedes of Syracuse who first said that the shortest distance between two points was the straight line connecting them. Far be it from me to ever cast a shadow upon the wisdom of a Golden Age Greek, but Archimedes had it wrong. The length of the straight line between two people who don’t dare admit they’re in love is infinite.

Oh. Oh my,” Dear Roberta began to gasp. “A murder. Oh dear. I think I shall faint.” She fluttered her hand before her face. “Not now, Roberta, there’s a dear,” interjected Mary Jane. “Why bother swooning when there are no young men about to see you do it?

That there were females in the world! After weeks at the Front, they were a forgotten miracle, these beings who smelled clean and pleasant, and wore bright colors, and did not go about killing one another!

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...