Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The world is alive with words. The animals, the trees, the grass, and the birds hum with their own words. “Life,” they say. “Air,” they breathe. “Heat,” they hum. The birds call “Fly, fly!” and the leaves wave them onward, uncurling as they whisper “grow, grow.”

— Amy Harmon

202. “We are more than just a collection of bones, cobbled together by God or by eons of evolution. We have souls. We have purpose. We’re more.”

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203. “Ah, do not mourn,” he said, “That we are tired, for other loves await us; Hate on and love through unrepining hours. Before us lies eternity; our souls Are love, and a continual farewell.”

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204. “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.”

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205. “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.”

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206. “He thinks I have dementia. He doesn’t understand that I’m just old and rude.”

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207. “On the inside I would still be little Lark, brittle bones and sharp feelings, certain that I would never be able to fulfill the duties before me.”

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208. “He presented me to the people assembled and to the lords who looked at me with green eyes and yellow hearts, their bitter thoughts tinging the air around them.”

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209. “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.”

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210. “It was both manic and mesmerizing, it was controlled chaos and detailed dementia.”

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211. “And you’re a sweet Georgia peach with fuzzy pink skin, and I’m not biting.”

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212. “But sand is my business. Sand, soda ash, and lime. Without sand, there wouldn’t be glass. My father named the company Ostrica – oyster – because the oyster takes the sand and makes it into something beautiful. Like we do. We take the sand and make it into glass.”

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213. “If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear.”

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214. “I would have to keep reminding myself that her anger, though directed at me, was not my burden.”

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215. “If spite was the only weapon at my disposal, I would continue to wield it.”

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216. “You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you’ll be.”

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217. “But ideas are easy. Dreams are even easier. They don’t require application.”

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218. “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. You’ll still be a woman. Hating never fixed anything.”

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219. “But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live. This.”

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

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

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222. “It is impossible to explain to someone who is surrounded by their own language and people just how lonely it is to not understand and to not be understood.”

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223. “He might be the easiest man in the universe to love, because he expects so little. He expects nothing and is grateful for everything. With a man like that, how could you worry about being enough?”

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224. “None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.”

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225. “Men are just frightened boys. God gave you stronger bodies to make up for your weaker spines.”

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226. “I was only limited by my ignorance, by my fear, and by my own sense of right and wrong.”

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227. “Which composers?” “Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and Maurice Ravel are my favorites.”

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228. “Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.”

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229. “I told you. You told me. Only the wind knows which truly comes first.”

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230. “Life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.”

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231. “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.”

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232. “When one dreams terrible dreams, part of the unconscious mind reassures that wakefulness will summon reality and banish the nightmare.”

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233. “Slavery hasn’t ended, and women still have our place, and we’d best not venture out of it. Maybe it is because we are treasured, as John once said, but it is one thing to be treasured and it is another to be a treasure. One is valued, one is possessed, and people aren’t possessions.”

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234. “He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance.”

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235. “Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death.”

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236. “It may be a small part, but you’ll kill it,” Noah promised. “I know you will. Sometimes it’s the smallest part that steals the show.”

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237. “Because the beauty of the fall was worth the pain of landing.”

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238. “Words managed to find me, whether I wanted to hear them or not.”

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

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240. “Everyone who has ever lived. The wind and the water already know,” he said softly. “Know what?” “Everything. The wind you hear is the same wind that has always blown. The rain that falls is the same rain. Over and over, round and round, like a giant circle. The wind and the waves have been present since time began. The rocks and stars too. But the rocks don’t speak, and the stars are too far away to tell us what they know.”

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241. “Think of me when we part, I’ll send you with my heart. Keep it tucked next to yours, ‘Til you return once more.”

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242. “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.”

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243. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’” I began. He huffed under his breath, like I’d surprised him again, and I paused in my recitation. “You’ve memorized it?” he asked. “Yes, sir.” “Why?” “Because I believe in it.”

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244. “I love Ma an awful lot, but loving Ma is kinda like loving God. She’s not really a person.”

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245. “The world is alive with words.”

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246. “We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.”

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247. “Put your energy into rising above the things you can’t change, Naomi. Keep your mind right. And everything will work out for the best.”

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248. “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. Eoin taught me about God, and because I loved and cherished Eoin, I loved and cherished God.”

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249. “He’d been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.”

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250. “Someone very wise told me that we keep the people we love in our hearts. We never lose them as long as we can remember how it felt to be loved by them.”

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