158 Quotes by Julie Berry

If they have a deep understanding of love, the French have an even deeper understanding of food and when it is to be eaten. That is, precisely when it’s ready.

Laughing at their own destruction, casual about carnage. Maybe laughing was the only way to survive it all.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

There was a time, in their flat, when the position of the piano meant that while James... saw only the left side of her face. She looked just like the girl he'd first seen at the parish dance in Poplar. But when a furniture rearrangement took place, on a whim, leaving Hazel's right side on display, James decided he liked that view even better. She was his, from every angle. The scars were a reminder that she came back

Keeping the whole safe for people to practice their audition pieces seems like the one good reason to fight this war. If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?

Stay alert. Anything can happen in a war, but it’s less likely to happen to the man who keeps his eyes open.

Audrey wonders if he'll die IN his country before he ever gets a chance to die FOR his country

Tell you what we ain't gonna do." He came closer. "We ain't gonna let you N**** get a taste for white women. That's why you all in such a hurry to get to France.""Aubrey wanted to retch. A taste. As if they'd risk their lived, leave home, and put up with all this redneck prejudiced sh*t in the army, just to lay hands on white girls

He wished he could peel off the war like a scab. All he wanted now was to be was a chap with a lovely girl at his side. Even if his uniform was all he had to wear.