Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “And I prayed He would take away my pain, and if He couldn’t do that, then would He, please, take away my love? Because the pain and the love were so intertwined that I couldn’t seem to have one without the other. Maybe if I didn’t love, I wouldn’t hurt so much.”

— Amy Harmon

102. “We are abused. We are used. We are bartered and abandoned. But rarely are we loved.”

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103. “I’m okay with death, Mo. I’m good with it,” Tag said quietly. “But dying... dying is different. I’m afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not being strong for the people who love me. I’m afraid of the suffering I will cause. I’m afraid of the helplessness I’ll feel when I can’t make it all better. I don’t want to sit in a hospital bed, day after day, dying. I don’t want Millie trying to take care of me. I don’t want Henry watching me fade from giant to shadow. Can you understand that, Mo?”

— Amy Harmon

104. “None of us can help who we are. We are born into the world we are born into. The family. The skin. Nobody gets to choose those things. You can’t be mad at a man for who he is. Only what he is... and the choices he makes.”

— Amy Harmon

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

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106. “My grandfather told me once that happiness is an expression of gratitude. And it’s never wrong to be grateful.”

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107. “We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can’t contain it.”

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108. “But the pain is almost sweet because it means you happened. We happened.”

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109. “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

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

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111. “To read about King Arthur, who lived and died more than a thousand years before, was its own immortality, and for a boy who felt the sands of time slipping by in an endless countdown, immortality was an intoxicating concept. Bailey.”

— Amy Harmon

112. “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.”

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113. “Hidden by old age awhile In masker’s cloak and hood Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we stood. – W. B. Yeats.”

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114. “But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is.”

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115. “Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you immediately have to name five greats.”

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116. “Everyone always talks about being color blind. And I get that. I do. But maybe instead of being color blind, we should celebrate color, in all its shades. It kind of bugs me that we’re supposed to ignore our differences like we don’t see them, when seeing them doesn’t have to be a negative.”

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117. “Everything has an origin story. Every place. Every person. We come from the womb of a woman, who came from the womb of a woman, who came from the womb of a woman. We inherit gifts and weakness, we are born in triumph and strife, we are swaddled in kindness or indifference, and we are made to learn and walk among others who have their own origin stories, their own burdens, and their own history.”

— Amy Harmon

118. “I have all the power, but you will destroy me.”

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119. “Put your energy into rising above the things you can’t change, Naomi. Keep your mind right.”

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120. “Human beings are not designed to be alone. Our creator gave us smooth, sensitive skin that craves the warmth of other skin. Our arms seek to hold. Our hands yearn to touch. We are drawn to companionship and affection out of an innate need.”

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121. “The hardest thing about life is knowing what matters and what doesn’t,” Winifred muses. “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.”

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122. “But it is hope that will give you the desire to continue. You must resist it, that hopelessness. 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

123. “Only the wind knows which truly comes first.”

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124. “There are some paths that inevitably lead to heartache, some acts that steal men’s souls, leaving them wandering forever after without them, trying to find what they lost. There are too many lost souls in Ireland because of politics. I’m going to hold on to what’s left of mine.”

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125. “If you push people away for long enough, isolation become a terrible habit. People start to believe your prefer it.”

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126. “I want you too. So we’re even. Infinity plus one does equal two, see? Me and you.”

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127. “Life isn’t always easy and people can be cruel.”

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128. “God is all the good stuff. God equals love.”

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129. “I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he’d let me do it again.”

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130. “Maybe people had no choice but I wonder sometimes what would have happened if everyone without a choice would have made a choice anyway. If we all chose not to participate. Not to be bullied. Not to take up arms. Not to persecute. What would happen then?”

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131. “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.”

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132. “Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.”

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133. “We turn memories into stories, and if we don’t, we lose them. If the stories are gone, then the people are gone too.”

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134. “Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.”

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135. “Some moments you don’t get back. You don’t want to spend a lifetime wondering about those moments you didn’t seize, about the things you should have done but were too scared to do.”

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136. “His pulse pounded, and his body raged, wanting to succumb, to give her passion instead of patience, lust instead of longsuffering. But the anguish of adoration would heal them – he believed that –.”

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137. “When you realize there’s so much you can’t control, you get pretty stingy with what you can.”

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138. “A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. A story flawed and fractured, crazy and cracked, and most of all, a love story.”

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139. “Do you know what I believe in, Angelo? I believe in my family. I believe in my father. I believe in Santino and Fabia. And I believe in you. The people I love most in the world. Love is the only thing I believe in.”

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140. “I clung to him like my life depended on it. Maybe it did. I hadn’t seen him for so many years, and so much had happened in my life since I had last seen his face, but at that moment I was thirteen again. Someone I had loved had returned, someone lost had come back to me, and I held him fiercely, with no intention of ever letting him go.”

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141. “But he was also shrewd instead of wise, mannerly instead of kind, and ambitious instead of strong.”

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142. “I knew someday I would be gone too, and no one would remember that I had ever lived. The world would forget. It would go on, shaking itself free of those who had been, sloughing off the old for the new.”

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143. “People will talk, Anne. They’ll talk, and they’ll speculate about where you’ve been and what – and who – you’ve been doing it with. What they don’t know, they might fabricate. But in the end, none of that really matters.”

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144. “If you don’t love, then nobody gets hurt. It’s easy to leave. It’s easy to lose. It’s easy to let go.”

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145. “You can’t see a song. You feel a song, you hear a song, you move to it. Just like I can’t see you, but I feel you, and I move toward you. When you’re with me, I feel like I glimpse a David nobody else knows is there. It’s the Song of David, and nobody else can hear it but me.”

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146. “I was taught to love Ireland, but love should not be this hard. Duty, yes. But not love. Maybe that’s my answer. A man won’t suffer or sacrifice for something he doesn’t love. In the end, I suppose it all amounts to what we love the most.”

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147. “This last year I’ve felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school. The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded. That’s what I look like, a paper snowflake. And each hole has a name. And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again.”

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148. “And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can’t see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can’t contain it.”

— Amy Harmon

149. “Love had not made them poor. Love had made them wealthy. In that moment, they were royalty, a king of fortune and a queen of destiny, embracing a tiny prince of peace.”

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150. “Are you angry with the bird because he can fly, or angry with the horse for her beauty, or angry with the bear because he has fearsome teeth and claws? Because he’s bigger than you are? Stronger too? Destroying all the things you hate won’t change any of that. You still won’t be a bear or a bird or a horse. Hating men won’t make you a man. Hating your womb or your breasts or your own weakness won’t make those things go away. Hating never fixed anything.”

— Amy Harmon