“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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“In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from It Ends with Us
“When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“An incomplete list:
No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No more trains running under the surface of cities on the dazzling power of the electric third rail. No more cities. No more films, except rarely, except with a generator drowning out half the dialogue, and only then for the first little while until the fuel for the generators ran out, because automobile gas goes stale after two or three years. Aviation gas lasts longer, but it was difficult to come by.
No more screens shining in the half-light as people raise their phones above the crowd to take pictures of concert states. No more concert stages lit by candy-colored halogens, no more electronica, punk, electric guitars.
No more pharmaceuticals. No more certainty of surviving a scratch on one's hand, a cut on a finger while chopping vegetables for dinner, a dog bite.
No more flight. No more towns glimpsed from the sky through airplane windows, points of glimmering light; no more looking down from thirty thousand feet and imagining the lives lit up by those lights at that moment. No more airplanes, no more requests to put your tray table in its upright and locked position – but no, this wasn't true, there were still airplanes here and there. They stood dormant on runways and in hangars. They collected snow on their wings. In the cold months, they were ideal for food storage. In summer the ones near orchards were filled with trays of fruit that dehydrated in the heat. Teenagers snuck into them to have sex. Rust blossomed and streaked.
No more countries, all borders unmanned.
No more fire departments, no more police. No more road maintenance or garbage pickup. No more spacecraft rising up from Cape Canaveral, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from Vandenburg, Plesetsk, Tanegashima, burning paths through the atmosphere into space.
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, quote from Station Eleven
“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Grip of the Shadow Plague
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