Top 400 Amy Harmon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The world is alive with words.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

354. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

355. “Hating never fixed anything. It seems simple, but most things are. We just complicate them. We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.”

— Amy Harmon

356. “I hated making small talk and avoided people in the grocery store and other places just so that i wouldn’t have to think of things to say. I liked people, i cared about them, and i wanted to be a good person, but don’t make me chat idly on the telephone or make pleasant conversation just for the sake of being polite.- Josie Jo Jensen.”

— Amy Harmon

357. “What you tell him he can’t have, he’ll set his heart on.”

— Amy Harmon

358. “We’re more than male or female. More than our lips and tongues, more than our hearts and our lungs, more than the muscles that move beneath our skin and the blood that runs through our veins. We’re more than our arms and legs. More than our eyes. More than our feet and hands. We’re more than just a collection of bones, cobbled together by God or eons of evolution. We have souls. We have purpose. We’re more.”

— Amy Harmon

359. “Yes. Thankfully. They still read books.” I laughed. “‘There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away,’” I quoted. “Emily Dickinson,” he supplied.”

— Amy Harmon

360. “But whoever made this world understands beauty and love. All you have to do is look around to feel it. And I don’t think that ever ends. ‘Whatever God does, it is forever,’” I quoted. “I imagine death is like moving into a new season.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

363. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

365. “With the heat billowing out around us and inside us, the lights of the dash our only stars, Finn let his hands slide over me, breathing life into me, letting his colors flow through me, his mouth call out to me. And I met him at the door.”

— Amy Harmon

366. “He told me everything would be okay because the wind already knows,” I whispered.”

— Amy Harmon

367. “Energy isn’t really created or destroyed, it’s simply redirected.”

— Amy Harmon

368. “Yeah. You were too little I guess. Hondo was a good horse. Grandpa loved him as much as you love Sackett.”

— Amy Harmon

369. “In a way, he radicalized me too, if faith can be called radical. I’ve come to think it might be the most rebellious thing of all.”

— Amy Harmon

370. “You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”

— Amy Harmon

371. “Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that’s what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that’s how we know we’ve lived. How we know we’ve truly loved.”

— Amy Harmon

372. “I didn’t want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me.”

— Amy Harmon

373. “See? The moment you quit chasing him, that’s when he wants you. He looks jealous. He thinks he’s been replaced.”

— Amy Harmon

374. “A man won’t suffer or sacrifice for something he doesn’t love.”

— Amy Harmon

375. “But there, in a little boat in Venice, as I watched the sun set – a fiery, hellish, red ball turning the water and sky into shades of heaven – my eyes had filled up with tears at the violent beauty of it all. In that moment, I realized I wanted to live again. For the first time in a long time, I was glad to be alive.”

— Amy Harmon

376. “His voice was so flat I could have built a wall on it.”

— Amy Harmon

377. “Death had taken his smirk and his scowl. He was gray-faced and gutted, and I crouched beside him for a moment, unable to comprehend the reality of it all. The birds warbled above me and the sky was blue. That death could exist on a beautiful day was inconceivable to me.”

— Amy Harmon

378. “But whether or not they chose to take a step into the unknown, the unknown would still come, the yawning precipice would still swallow them whole, and life as they knew it would be over. And they had all become highly aware of the end.”

— Amy Harmon

379. “People liked religion but they didn’t want to have to exercise any faith. Religion was comforting with all its structure and its rules. It made people feel safe. But faith wasn’t safe. Faith was hard and uncomfortable and forced people to step out on a limb.”

— Amy Harmon

380. “But it was a road I hadn’t built, and I’m convinced you can’t ever be completely happy walking on someone else’s road. Someone else’s path. The way to true happiness is to forge your own, even if your road isn’t straight. Even if there are bridges to build and mountains to tunnel through. Nothing feels as good as paving your own way.”

— Amy Harmon

381. “Maybe someday, as the knots became unraveled, this moment would wrap around him, tying him to her. Or maybe her love would simply loosen the strings, freeing him to walk away.”

— Amy Harmon

382. “I’d been wrong about one thing. These were not average men and women. Time had not given them a gloss they had not earned. Even those I wanted to loathe, based on my own research and conclusions, conducted themselves with fervor and honest conviction. These weren’t posing politicians. They were patriots whose blood and sacrifice deserved history’s pardon and Ireland’s compassion.”

— Amy Harmon

383. “His good looks made him believe he deserved more than life gave him. Had he been plain, he might not have been so proud.”

— Amy Harmon

384. “I’m a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can’t paint. I don’t know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you’ll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

386. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

387. “We don’t get to choose when we go or how we go. None of us do.”

— Amy Harmon

388. “Thomas asked if I would entertain his guests with the story of the holy birth and light the candles in the ballroom windows. The candles were a tradition, a signal to Mary and Joseph that there was room for them inside. In Penal times, when priests were forbidden to perform Mass, the candle in the window was a symbol of the believer, a sign that the inhabitants of the house would also welcome the priests.”

— Amy Harmon

389. “My job this year is to introduce you to stories that open your mind to a broader world – a colorful history – and to help you see the connections to your own life.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon

391. “Silence was a close cousin to invisibility.”

— Amy Harmon

392. “But sometimes in my reading I would discover new insights or have seemingly profound thoughts that would change my way of thinking.”

— Amy Harmon

393. “The Andersons are from Norway. The McNeelys are Irish. Johann Gruber is from Germany. You’re part Indian, and I’m a widow.” She shrugs. “We all need each other. We can all live side by side peaceably, can’t we? We don’t all have to be exactly the same.”

— Amy Harmon

394. “There was no way she could go back. She would be unalterably changed, ruined for anyone else. And she knew it as surely as if she’s been kissed by a thousand men.”

— Amy Harmon

395. “As I sat in the old church where generations of my ancestors may have worshipped, where prayers had been spoken and hearts broken and healed, it all made sense for a small moment. Religion made sense, if only to add context to the struggle of life and death. The church was a monument to what had been, a connection to the past that comforted those in the present, and it comforted me.”

— Amy Harmon

396. “Our aspirations are so often influenced by our appearance.”

— Amy Harmon

397. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

398. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

399. “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.”

— Amy Harmon

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

— Amy Harmon