Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “God has given you one face and you make yourself another.” – Hamlet.”

— 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. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

113. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

115. “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

116. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

134. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

135. “It is one thing to fight for freedom; it is another to condemn the innocent to die in your war.”

— Amy Harmon

136. “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

137. “How can you compromise with people who don’t want you to exist? They want us to disappear. I can’t adapt to death.”

— Amy Harmon

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

141. “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

142. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

144. “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

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

— Amy Harmon

146. “I loved churches the way I loved cemeteries and books. All three were markers of humanity, of time, of life. I felt no censure or guilt, no heaviness or dread, inside religious walls.”

— Amy Harmon

147. “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

148. “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

149. “I can’t imagine all men love their women the way I love Anne. If they did, the streets would be empty, and the fields would grow fallow. Industry would rumble to a halt and markets would tumble as men bowed at the feet of their wives, unable to need or notice anything but her. If all men loved their wives the way I love Anne, we would be a useless lot. Or maybe the world would know peace. Maybe the wars would end, and the strife would cease as we centred our lives on loving and being loved.”

— Amy Harmon

150. “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