Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “And all the opinion in the world doesn’t change the past.”

— Amy Harmon

52. “Terrence Anderson, who had nothing but insults for Georgia, had definitely lost his sass when I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives.”

— Amy Harmon

53. “They won’t look like you,” Pa says. “Your children. That’s what happens when dark marries light. They won’t have your green eyes or your color hair. You need to think about that and what kinda lives they’ll have. They’ll look like him.” “Well, I guess that’s a good thing. The May line is a little homely.”

— Amy Harmon

54. “Tragedy makes for great stories, but I’d much rather your story – the one you live, not the ones you write – be filled with joy. Don’t revel in tragedy, Annie. Rejoice in love. And once you find it, don’t let it go. In the end, it is the one thing you won’t regret,” Eoin had said.”

— Amy Harmon

55. “That is really what church is for. It’s a chance to just sit still and think about all the wonderful things God has made and count all the blessings we have.”

— Amy Harmon

56. “But I think I will keep you.”

— Amy Harmon

57. “Good literature should make us weep.”

— Amy Harmon

58. “I was accepted as a man because for me to be a woman was unfathomable.”

— Amy Harmon

59. “He even pinched himself, just to make sure he’d actually woken up this morning to a pop star in his arms, a Bear on his front steps, and now, God in his backseat.”

— Amy Harmon

60. “Fear is strange. It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone and collects in a soul-sized black hole, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasure, the beauty. But not the hope. Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive.”

— Amy Harmon

61. “Women don’t make great warriors,” Ivo spat. Dagmar didn’t respond. He didn’t agree. A mother was the fiercest warrior of all.”

— Amy Harmon

62. “God’s Heart is big enough for all of mankind, yet mine can’t be big enough for two?”

— Amy Harmon

63. “Nobody or Nowhere? Fern: I’d rather be nobody at home than somebody somewhere else. Ambrose: I’d rather be nowhere. Being nobody when you’re expected to be somebody gets old. Fern: How would you know? Have you been nobody? Ambrose: Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.”

— Amy Harmon

64. “Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.”

— Amy Harmon

65. “But there’s no way to avoid regret. Don’t let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life’s aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you’re gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn’t necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.”

— Amy Harmon

66. “Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?”

— Amy Harmon

67. “The truth is, the harder we are, the easier we shatter. It takes some softness to absorb life’s blows.”

— Amy Harmon

68. “If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”

— Amy Harmon

69. “I’ve fallen out of love with the view from my window.”

— Amy Harmon

70. “She decided she would just be a fairy because she liked the option of flying without the responsibility of saving the world.”

— Amy Harmon

71. “You don’t need wings to fly.”

— Amy Harmon

72. “The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. It’s the only thing that is.”

— Amy Harmon

73. “It was too good to be true, too sweet to be reality for too long, so when someone set out to destroy his belief in her, it made more sense to doubt her than to believe that she had truly loved him in the first place.”

— Amy Harmon

74. “Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.”

— Amy Harmon

75. “There isn’t heartache if there hasn’t been joy. I wouldn’t feel loss if there hadn’t been love. You couldn’t take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather have this pain now than never have known him. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.”

— Amy Harmon

76. “This is just me. Get used to it.”

— Amy Harmon

77. “Every path is likely just a different version of hard.”

— Amy Harmon

78. “God makes me strong. He gives me courage. He gives me peace. He gives me purpose.”

— Amy Harmon

79. “Some things are better left to discover. Some paths are better left unknown.”

— Amy Harmon

80. “Swallow Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ’til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ’til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heav’n or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.”

— Amy Harmon

81. “You’re my miracle! The fact that you and I came together, that we met, that I found the love of my life. That’s a miracle, Millie! I’m so grateful for that. So many people don’t get that. We did. It’s a miracle I was awake enough not to miss it. And it’s a miracle you loved me back.”

— Amy Harmon

82. “Writing is about emotion. There is no magic without it.”

— Amy Harmon

83. “It always amazes me how people are placed in our lives at exactly the right times. That’s how God works, that’s how he takes care of his children.”

— Amy Harmon

84. “Just because it doesn’t make sense to you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense.”

— Amy Harmon

85. “If nothing matters, then there’s no point. If everything matters, there’s no purpose. The trick is to find firm ground between the two ways of being.”

— Amy Harmon

86. “Do you stand naked in front of the mirror and flex every night? I mean, really, at least go into the adult film industry. At least it won’t go completely to waste.”

— Amy Harmon

87. “In music, there is no bondage. Music is a door, and the soul escapes through the melody. Even if it’s only for a few minutes. And everyone who listens is freed. Everyone who listens is elevated.”

— Amy Harmon

88. “You make me feel safe, Fern. You make me forget. And when I kiss you I just want to keep kissing you. Everything else falls away.”

— Amy Harmon

89. “Hurting is feeling and feeling is living and isn’t it good to be alive?”

— Amy Harmon

90. “Please don’t go.”

— Amy Harmon

91. “Great miracles were wrought on their journey, but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.”

— Amy Harmon

92. “There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.”

— Amy Harmon

93. “The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.”

— Amy Harmon

94. “It was love that made each touch feel like redemption and each kiss feel like rebirth. Not lust. Not pleasure. It was love that created joy.”

— Amy Harmon

95. “I would become a real lark. A little bird. And I would fly away. I would make my nest high in a tree, and I would sing. Sing and fly. If I were a real bird people would lose the ability to disappoint me. I wouldn’t consider them at all. I would have only four little words in my head. Sleep, eat, fly, sing. And that would be enough for me.”

— Amy Harmon

96. “God has given you one face and you make yourself another.” – Hamlet.”

— Amy Harmon

97. “Time was not flat and linear but layered and interconnected, a circle that retraced its path again and again, generation after generation, shearing the same space if not the same sphere.”

— Amy Harmon

98. “Without desire, there is only duty. But sometimes our greatest desire is to do our duty.”

— Amy Harmon

99. “Loss is not spread equally. I have learned that lesson well. It is a lumpy porridge and a thin gruel, and fate does not consider the suffering of a mother and say, Perhaps I’ll spare her this time.”

— Amy Harmon

100. “He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.”

— Amy Harmon