Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I read somewhere that a person will never truly know who they are unless they prioritize what they love... Anne Gallagher.”

— Amy Harmon

52. “I don’t HAVE to believe anything. I believe in God because Abuela believes in God. And the God Abuela believes in is kind, and He loves all of His children. Especially the ones who need Him the most. Especially the ones who are sad enough that they want to die. He isn’t going to send them away to hell or anywhere else. That’s what I believe.”

— Amy Harmon

53. “When God takes you, let Him take you. When He plucks you from this earthly coil, then you may rejoice. But as long as you draw breath, as long as your heart beats and the sun rises, you must stay in the fight.”

— Amy Harmon

54. “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

55. “She said ’life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

— Amy Harmon

56. “He said freedom was the ability to go wherever you heart called.”

— Amy Harmon

57. “And all the opinion in the world doesn’t change the past.”

— Amy Harmon

58. “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

59. “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

60. “I’d heard once that our view of God has everything to do with those who taught us about Him. Our image of Him often reflected our image of them.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

62. “If dark chocolate could sing it would sound like Ambrose Young.”

— Amy Harmon

63. “You glow, Lark.” His hand climbed back up again and swept over my unbound hair. I swallowed, suddenly close to tears. Then why does no one see me? “I see you,” he said.”

— Amy Harmon

64. “If the world is too flat, people like me will slide right off.”

— Amy Harmon

65. “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

66. “But I think I will keep you.”

— Amy Harmon

67. “Good literature should make us weep.”

— Amy Harmon

68. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

70. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

80. “Please don’t go.”

— Amy Harmon

81. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

89. “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

90. “Whenever you start feeling trapped or helpless, just close your eyes, and you have more space than you’ll ever need.”

— Amy Harmon

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “My grandmother told me once that men may run the world, but women rule men.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

96. “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

97. “Our friends shape the course of our lives. You have to choose them very carefully. But if you know who He is, then He will help you know who you are. And if you know who you are, you will know who your true friends are. One thing leads to another, you see.”

— Amy Harmon

98. “Don’t talk ill of the dead,′ people say. But if we aren’t truthful about who our loved ones were, then we aren’t really remembering them. We’re creating someone who didn’t exist.”

— Amy Harmon

99. “The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon