Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “A rejected infant will often die, even if its basic needs are met. A rejected child will spend his whole life trying to please everyone else, and never please himself. A rejected woman will often cheat, just to feel desirable. A rejected man will rarely try again, no matter how lonely he is. A rejected people will convince themselves they deserve it, if only to make sense of a senseless world. I’m.”

— Amy Harmon

202. “I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her.”

— Amy Harmon

203. “We never saw what was obvious until we were hit over the head with it.”

— Amy Harmon

204. “Sasha of Kilmorda, of Solemn, of Enoch, of the plains of Janda, of every place in between, will you be Sasha of Jeru?” “Sasha of Kjell?” she asked. “Sasha of Kjell,” he answered. “I am yours, remember?” she reminded him, as if she’d already said yes a thousand times. “And I am yours,” he whispered.”

— Amy Harmon

205. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

206. “I struggled to find my words in all that black space. It took all my strength to keep my eyes from closing and the darkness from absorbing me. I had no hope. I felt no joy. I saw no future that didn’t fill me with anguish, so I didn’t think at all. I didn’t make words or cast spells. I just was. And that was all I could manage.”

— Amy Harmon

207. “It is the suffering of love. Every parent feels it. It is the suffering of being unable to shield or save.”

— Amy Harmon

208. “It was you who taught me that the only sacrifice with any power is the one that is willingly made.”

— Amy Harmon

209. “It’s worth it, you know. What is, Jennie? The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’s the only thing that is.”

— Amy Harmon

210. “We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.”

— Amy Harmon

211. “If a man can’t protect and provide it’ll make him mean or it’ll drive him crazy.”

— Amy Harmon

212. “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

213. “That crazed girl improvising her music, Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling she knew not where. – W. B. Yeats.”

— Amy Harmon

214. “I was spent without compromise, sated without sacrifice, completely and totally head-over-heels in love. And it was delicious.”

— Amy Harmon

215. “It is one thing to kill someone. It is another to degrade and humiliate, to strip away a person’s dignity like stripping away flesh. One made a man a murderer. The other made him a monster.”

— Amy Harmon

216. “Ma says the things we fear most tend to find us.”

— Amy Harmon

217. “That’s why I go to the gym. I want to look like Tag,” he.”

— Amy Harmon

218. “An education was about more than reading and arithmetic. It was about wonder too, and becoming able and useful people.”

— Amy Harmon

219. “The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.”

— Amy Harmon

220. “Oh, Bonny. That’s funny. That’s a funny one. ‘I want the world to accept her,’” he said, pitching his voice a little higher, mimicking me. “Well go on then, woman. Go chase acceptance. When you find it, let me know. ‘Cause there’s a few African folk who’d really like to know where it is.”

— Amy Harmon

221. “I didn’t cry easily. It was a badge of honor, of toughness. I was a slip of a girl, a woman with little to offer and nothing to say, but I had my dignity, and tears were undignified.”

— Amy Harmon

222. “Normal was so lost to me that I didn’t even know where to look for it.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

224. “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

225. “People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids. Nobody really wants messed up kids. And Moses was messed up.”

— Amy Harmon

226. “We can’t escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I’m Moses and you’re Tag. And that part never changes.”

— Amy Harmon

227. “Go left for a bit; go right for a bit more. Pull over and ask if you get lost, but you shouldn’t get lost because it’s not that far.”

— Amy Harmon

228. “Idealism often rewrites history to suit her narrative.”

— Amy Harmon

229. “You made me question what I thought I knew.”

— Amy Harmon

230. “To sh-show you mercy now would be to sh-show no mercy to those you will p-prey upon next.”

— Amy Harmon

231. “There were many times in our season of death when I sat upon my hill, surveyed the bit of the world I was allowed to see, and pleaded for God to rein fate in. Fate was cruel, but I did not believe God was. But fate was not done, and God did not stop her.”

— Amy Harmon

232. “If I were to paint you, I would use every color.”

— Amy Harmon

233. “For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, From a world more full of weeping than he can understand. – W. B. Yeats.”

— Amy Harmon

234. “We can’t escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I’m Moses and you’re Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won’t change that.”

— Amy Harmon

235. “I was incredibly grateful for all my jagged pieces that kept him away.”

— Amy Harmon

236. “The newer plots, newer deaths, rimmed the edges of the graveyard, as if death rippled outward like a rock tossed in a lake.”

— Amy Harmon

237. “But the wind and water know all the earth’s secrets. They’ve seen and heard all that has ever been said or done. And if you listen, they will tell you all the stories and sing every song. The stories of everyone who has ever lived. Millions and millions of lives. Millions and millions of stories.”

— Amy Harmon

238. “Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.”

— Amy Harmon

239. “That was your second chance, and you repeated all your mistakes. You’ve shown your colors, and I don’t like the way you look in them. I don’t want you around.”

— Amy Harmon

240. “I’ve come to believe that home is not a place. Home is inside of us. Home is the people we love. Home is what we strive for.”

— Amy Harmon

241. “I wrapped my head in my arms, and let the torrent consume me. I had never let myself cry like this. I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief. Hope rose within me like a buoy. And with the hope, came peace. And the peace calmed the waters and quieted the storm, until I sat, spent, bled out, done.”

— Amy Harmon

242. “To heal with herbs and soothe with my touch. I learned wisdom and wariness, and I learned to patiently accept and quietly wait.”

— Amy Harmon

243. “Sometimes funny is all you’ve got.”

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244. “I keep thinking that maybe you and I could take a road trip and tell all the girls we meet along the way that we’re both vets. You’ve got a messed up face and my war wounds have put me in this chair. You think they’d believe it? Maybe then I could get some action. Problem is, how am I going to get a handful of tit if I can’t lift my arms?”

— Amy Harmon

245. “I am yours, Bayr. Always. My heart is yours. My spirit is yours, and even when I’m dead, I will refuse Valhalla, and I will follow at your heels, watching over you.”

— Amy Harmon

246. “I wondered if weakness wasn’t just as dangerous. The weak allowed evil to flourish.”

— Amy Harmon

247. “There were no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn’t give up ’til they died.”

— Amy Harmon

248. “It’s not just about what’s there, but what isn’t .”

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249. “I would but find what’s there to find, Love or deceit. It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what’s behind. – W. B. Yeats.”

— Amy Harmon

250. “The world is alive with words.”

— Amy Harmon