Quotes 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.”
― 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 lonesome dark.
That's what Jack called a night like this. When you were distanced from everything and everybody. Out on your own and there was nobody to care if you were happy or sad. If you lived or died.
The lonesome dark hadn't existed in the old days. That was something people invented. Like time. Parcel up the days, parcel up the seasons. Add a minute here, a day there when it doesn't quite fit. Trim the square peg so that you could slide it into the round hole. In the old days the night was as open as the day. It wasn't a better place to hide because there was nothing to hide from. You weren't outside because there was no in.”
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“In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said.
I smiled.
"What?"
I said, "I was just thinking of your father.”
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“Then think of this as an adventure." I kissed hi cheek. "So which flower should I be?"
He curled me close to his chest, nuzzling his face into my hair. "Mmmm, can't you be all of them? My own bouquet of beauty? Like daisies opening their friendly petals." He brushed his fingertips over my eyelids. "Or marigolds that burn like the summer sun." He rubbed his hands over my back. "Or orchids-rare and exotic." He traced a finger across my collarbone down to rest lightly on the locket I wore all the time. "Roses for passion." He kissed me.”
― Lisa Mangum, quote from The Hourglass Door

“People have their reasons for the damnedest things in my experience.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Savor the Moment

“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it was because someone on an aeroplane had dropped a rose at just the right time for it to land in your hand. There was a real person and a real aeroplane and a real rose, but that doesn't mean the reason you have the rose in your hand isn't because you did the magic.”
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