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Lovely War QUOTES

Lovely War QUOTES

1 " Here is a new musical phenomenon. Not songs written for black musicians by white composers. Not humiliating parodies that grope for a laugh, joking at the black singers' expense. Black composers and lyricists, black musicians excellent in their own right. Not merely excellent, but daring and vibrant and wholly original. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

2 " Hephaestus: "I envy your mortals."
Aphrodite: "As Ares says, they die you know."
Hephaestus: "They do. But the lucky ones live first [...] The luckiest ones spend time with you. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

3 " Laughing at their own destruction, casual about carnage. Maybe laughing was the only way to survive it all. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

4 " All hugs must end, so they pulled apart, just a little. That hurt too much, so he rested his forehead and nose upon hers. Sometimes happiness is just about more than a body can bear. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

5 " Hephaestus: "I envy your mortals."
Aphrodite: "As Area says, they die you know."
Hephaestus: "They do. But the lucky ones live first [...] The luckiest ones spend time with you. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

6 " Nothing but the chance to say, wordlessly, Here; you’ve been carrying that alone for a long time. Let me carry it with you awhile. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

7 " Spent casings lay scattered like birdseed at his feet. It felt like a horse had kicked his shoulder. But his pulse thrummed. He liked shooting. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

8 " Audrey wonders if he'll die IN his country before he ever gets a chance to die FOR his country "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

9 " A white police officer had entered a black women's home without a warrant, searching for a suspect. When she protested, he beat and arrested her, dragging her from her home though she wasn't fully dressed. When a black soldier saw this and tried to intervene to defend the woman, the white policeman pistol-whipped the black soldier, seriously injuring him. The men of the beaten soldier's regiment, learning no consequences would befall the white policeman, felt abandoned by white police and army officials. They saw the abuse as a last straw in a long string of injustices. So the marched into the city. Soldiers and civilians died in the shooting that followed "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

10 " Tell you what we ain't gonna do." He came closer. "We ain't gonna let you N**** get a taste for white women. That's why you all in such a hurry to get to France."

"Aubrey wanted to retch. A taste. As if they'd risk their lived, leave home, and put up with all this redneck prejudiced sh*t in the army, just to lay hands on white girls "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

11 " What's most shocking... is that you mingled romanitcally with N**** soldiers... Have you no shame? No pride in your race?"
"Not at the moment... but I do take pride in my friendship with a brilliant young man who was always decent, kind, and a perfect gentleman. Which is more than can be said for plenty of own race that have passed through these doors. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

12 " Even Cobb, who had made a living peddling in Jim Crow stereotypes, and knew it, was moved by Johnson's heroics. He put a curious coda on his article:
as a result of what our black soldiers are going to do in this war, a word that has been uttered billions of times in our country, sometimes in derision, sometimes in hate, sometimes in all kindliness-but which I am sure never fell black ears but it left behind a sting for the heart-is going to have a new meaning for all of us, South and North too, and that hereafter n-i-*-*-*-r will merely be another way of spelling the word American "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

13 " What is it about uniforms - what magic spell do they cast? "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

14 " We do not give prizes for rhetoric to the best goodbye. To thank each other for a wonderful time; to separate with a smile, or tears; to part with a final kiss or a final word - no one knows what to do. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

15 " We don't give prizes for rhetoric to the best goodbye. To thank each other for a wonderful time; to separate with a smile, or tears; to part with a final kiss or a final word - no one knows what to do. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

16 " He wished he could peel off the war like a scab. All he wanted now was to be was a chap with a lovely girl at his side. Even if his uniform was all he had to wear. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

17 " If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then? "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

18 " The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

19 " Let them start their dreadful wars, let destruction rain down, and let plague sweep through, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War

20 " I envy the mortals. It's because they're weak and damaged that they can love. "

― Julie Berry , Lovely War