Julie Bertagna > Quotes

“You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“Keep going and never stop.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“I broke his heart though! When I refused to stay in his selfish New World, his stone heart broke into pieces!"..."I know it did because when he said good-bye, a splinter flew from his heart and pierced my own. And it's still there. I still feel it.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“How much wreckage and destruction justifies the creation of a better world?”
― Julie Bertagna, Zenith

“But women grow the living dreams, the human ones." Gorbals argues. "A human being is the greatest creation of all. Each of us is a new living dream.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“Fox wants too much. Sometimes in the rush of hyper-speed he dreams impossible dreams, dreams that cannot be. The difficult thing, he has discovered, is not just knowing how to dream but knowing what to dream. And the most difficult thing of all is when you find the answer to both. Then you start to believe in your dreams--the impossible dreams that can't come true.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no longer truly yours – even though it's got your name on the front and it lives inside you. It belongs to the readers now. All you can do is steel yourself as you push it out into the world, stay gracious, and get busy with the next one.”
― Julie Bertagna

“Panic is a bad judge.”
― Julie Bertagna, Zenith

“Don't build a bridge into thin air.”
― Julie Bertagna, Zenith

“luxury means little when there's no real freedom in the world”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“...It's just that sometimes I get so lost in the places the words take me to I forget where I am and—”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“But it's her life and to Mara it doesn't feel small. It feels like everything. Yet she will try, even if it means losing her life - because she won't be able to live with herself is she doesn't. And nothing is impossible - she should know that by now.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus

“Mara wonders how many of those golden names in the great halls had dreamswomen as mothers - women who helped them find and follow a dream.”
― Julie Bertagna, Exodus