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…

- Julie Berry

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the me…

- Julie Berry

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the bes…

- Julie Berry

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

- Julie Berry

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

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

- Julie Berry

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

- Julie Berry

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 o…

- Julie Berry

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

- Julie Berry