Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “God is all the good stuff. God equals love.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

103. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

105. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

107. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

115. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

117. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

118. “So many opinions and so few solutions. And all the opinion in the world doesn’t change the past.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

120. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

121. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

122. “Someone once told me that when people leave Ireland, they never go back. I couldn’t bear the thought of never going back. So I stayed.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

125. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

130. “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

131. “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

132. “I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.”

— Amy Harmon

133. “Be careful what you fear,” Ivo replied, grave. “We draw the attention of the fates when our fear grows too loud. The fates are cruel, and they will reward you with what you fear most.”

— Amy Harmon

134. “My brain might be cracked, but it’s not just my brain. The sky is cracked too, and I can sometimes see what’s on the other side.”

— Amy Harmon

135. “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

136. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

137. “I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until I cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you.”

— Amy Harmon

138. “That’s what marriage is. It’s shelter. It’s sustenance. It’s warmth. It’s finding rest in each other. It’s telling someone, You matter most.”

— Amy Harmon

139. “I’ve often wondered whether the Irish would be who we are if the English would have simply been more humane. If they would have been reasonable. If they would have allowed us to prosper. We were stripped of every right and schooled only in derision. They treated us like animals, and yet we didn’t yield.”

— Amy Harmon

140. “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

141. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

142. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

143. “Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Through our roots and branches. The family is immortality. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. All of them, gone.”

— Amy Harmon

144. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

145. “The only thing that matters to me, the only thing in this whole world that truly scares me, is something happening to you. Do you know that? I think I could face anything, endure anything, if I knew for sure you were safe and well. I cannot serve the way I need to serve, I can’t be the kind of priest I need to be, and be full of fear. My faith is being drowned by my fear for you.”

— Amy Harmon

146. “I had never been to a rodeo before. I had no idea how crazy white people could be. Considering I had been abandoned by a white, crack addict mother, I should have known.”

— Amy Harmon

147. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

148. “How can we ever learn to love each other if we don’t know each other’s stories?”

— Amy Harmon

149. “Looks don’t matter at all if your hearts are the same,” I declared, hoping it was true.”

— Amy Harmon

150. “You can’t build walls and then be mad when no one wants to climb over them.”

— Amy Harmon