Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.”

— Amy Harmon

352. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

356. “I missed him with an intensity that made his absence painful and his return a celebration. In the dark or the light, in the great hall or in our bedchamber, he was gruff but gentle, arrogant yet attentive, and he made love with a ferocity and focus that made it impossible not to bend myself to his will, even as I found ways to challenge and defy him.”

— Amy Harmon

357. “Any mother could tell you that a child invades her space from the moment of conception. And for years after, space does not exist. It was one of the things I had missed. I’d even yearned for it. And then Eli died, and I had all the space I had thought I wanted. Not just a little space. Outer space. Galaxies. And I’d floated in it in agony, longing for the days when there had been no such thing.”

— Amy Harmon

358. “Statistically, athletes with solid family units have better stamina, more purpose, better mental health, and overall improved performance than athletes who are either divorced or unmarried.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

361. “They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us out, like they’ve driven us out before. They can humiliate us and dehumanize us. But they cannot take our thoughts. They cannot take our talents. They cannot take our knowledge, or our memories, or our minds. In music there is no bondage. Music is a door, and the soul escapes through the melody.”

— Amy Harmon

362. “Kjell is right. You are a dangerous little bird. But I think I will keep you.”

— Amy Harmon

363. “Music is ’that by which I live.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

365. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

366. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

367. “I couldn’t decide if I loved the paintings or hated them.”

— Amy Harmon

368. “I joined him, laughing because we had looked death in the face and lived to tell about it, laughing because I didn’t want to cry.”

— Amy Harmon

369. “Volgar birdmen, hear my cry, Jeru’s burning, you will die. Close your wings and bow your heads, Every living birdman, dead.”

— Amy Harmon

370. “I am weighed down by the unknown and by my inability to prepare for it.”

— Amy Harmon

371. “I am not good.” He felt like weeping. He was not good. He was not generous. He was not courageous or compassionate. He simply loved her. And love made him a better man. That was all.”

— Amy Harmon

372. “Georgia’s eyes. Georgia’s hair. Georgia’s smile. Georgia’s personality. Georgia’s kisses.”

— Amy Harmon

373. “I turned, letting her catch me. And I caught her too, wrapping my arms around her so tight that the space between us became space around us, space above us, but not space inside us.”

— Amy Harmon

374. “I hope the reader will experience the story in the spirit it was written, recognizing that who we are is not who they were, and judging historical people by today’s standards prevents us from learning from them, from their mistakes and their triumphs. These people helped build the framework that we now stand on. We should be careful about burning it down.”

— Amy Harmon

375. “Mami told me not to tell her when my friends hurt me, because I would forgive them eventually, and she never would.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

377. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

380. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

381. “You are kind,” she said softly. “I am not kind,” Kjell scoffed. “And you are good,” she added. “I am not good!” he laughed. “I have never known a man like you.” “You were a slave in Quondoon! The men you knew were not trying to impress you.” “Neither are you, Captain. Yet I am still impressed.” “Then you have a lot to learn.” She.”

— Amy Harmon

382. “There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.”

— Amy Harmon

383. “Your hate will only harm you,” he said. “Just.”

— Amy Harmon

384. “Every day it’s another terrible story, another unforgiveable event. The whole country is under immense strain, yet there is an odd hopefulness mixed with the fear.”

— Amy Harmon

385. “I find men are more apt to let us play if they believe they will triumph.”

— Amy Harmon

386. “Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I’ll have to think of something else.”

— Amy Harmon

387. “I loved churches the way I loved cemeteries and books. All three were markers of humanity, of time, of life.”

— Amy Harmon

388. “Falling is easier if you don’t fight it.”

— Amy Harmon

389. “The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t control, the things we don’t cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I’ve never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be. I’ve never believed relationships were meant to be. We choose. In large part, we choose. We create, we make mistakes, we burn bridges, we build new ones.”

— Amy Harmon

390. “I can’t heal what isn’t broken.”

— Amy Harmon

391. “The pain in my chest was a physical thing, biting and twisting, and I bore down to combat it, to extinguish it, but it grew like Medusa’s hair, the writhing tendrils slipping up and out of my eyes in hot, wet rivulets.”

— Amy Harmon

392. “But I look back on the days when he was a newborn babe, when I had to hold him all night to keep him from crying, and I long for that time. There will never be a night like that again.”

— Amy Harmon

393. “I had never been embraced. Not once in my memory had I been cradled in another’s arms, but John Paterson clutched me to his heart like the prodigal son come home.”

— Amy Harmon

394. “The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first.” He.”

— Amy Harmon

395. “The words had risen from his skin even when he wasn’t speaking, and I had called them to me, collecting them like falling leaves, pressing them between the heavy pages of my memory so I could keep them.”

— Amy Harmon

396. “Silence, daughter. Stay alive.”

— Amy Harmon

397. “People who are afraid of the truth never find it.”

— Amy Harmon

398. “You were not supposed to love me, Lark. I did not set out to make you love me. And I was not supposed to love you. But I do. And it is terrible.”

— Amy Harmon

399. “The ability to devastate. Maybe that’s how we know we’ve lived. How we know we’ve truly loved.”

— Amy Harmon

400. “The nuns complained that religion was not a buffet from which I could select only certain dishes. I politely smiled and quietly disagreed. Life, religion, and learning were exactly that. A series of choices. If I had tried to consume everything that was presented to me all at once, I would have become too full too quickly, and all the flavors would have run together. Nothing would have made any sense in and of itself.”

— Amy Harmon