“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this.
I will triumph over you.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“It's always you ladybird," he says softly "don't you know?”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to save me. And now, to save myself, I take it back.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me lame for a time.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“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.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“It's a cold world when no one will touch you.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle. Even if that means enlisting the devil's help.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes.
Even more than I already am.
I pledge to give you all the truth that's in me.
And you want me to tell you this.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“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?”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“I have no words to save you.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“There's no justice in this world, the things that happen to people.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“The stars' cold stare reminds me: worse than a sinner, I'm a thief. I steal the touch you would not choose to give me.
You'll never know you've been robbed.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“I never heard any angel voice but yours.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“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.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“That won’t excuse me for presuming to give my heart to you. It’s not your fault you broke it.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“You’re a flood, a baptism I’d forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“My guilt was firm in their minds the moment my name was called, the moment my tongue was cut.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“You are not like him. No matter what anyone says.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“In every bit of beauty, I see you.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“My head is full of seeing you see me.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“Strange how my body and its purity have become the town's sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It's as if they were the ones wronged, not me.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
“You'll be farther from me than ever, if unreachable wasn't already far enough.”
― Julie Berry, quote from All the Truth That's in Me
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“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.
That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it.”
― Mark Twain, quote from Joan of Arc
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Painted House
“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her.
"I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear."
She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.”
― Joe Dunthorne, quote from Submarine
“I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole.”
― Wendell Berry, quote from The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
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