Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “When I let myself feel shame or guilt or regret, I feel powerless.”

— Kelly Rimmer

2. “I think that everything has a good and a bad side – everything, even though at the time most things that happen in life seem to be entirely good or entirely bad,’ Lilah.”

— Kelly Rimmer

3. “Life has a way of shattering our expectations, of leaving our hopes in pieces without explanation. But when there’s love in a family, the fragments left behind from our shattered dreams can always be pulled together again, even if the end result is a mosaic.”

— Kelly Rimmer

4. “Sometimes you have to let go of one dream to pick up another one.”

— Kelly Rimmer

5. “You’re my best friend in the whole world- a sister if not by blood, then by choice.”

— Kelly Rimmer

6. “Such an awful situation only brings out the best in humanity.”

— Kelly Rimmer

7. “Resentment breeds disdain, and that’s an ugly, toxic element in a relationship. It is the opposite of respect – the two things simply cannot exist in the same space.”

— Kelly Rimmer

8. “Life has a way of reminding you that you are at the mercy of chance, and that even well-thought-out plans can turn to chaos in an instant.”

— Kelly Rimmer

9. “We are meant to be together,” he whispered, trailing his finger down the side of my face. We were made for each other, and everything else in the world will just have to figure itself out because we are going to be together. I love you.”

— Kelly Rimmer

10. “This may be a piece of your own history, and it’s a history that was lost to you until now. I’ve helped people track their ancestors before, and the smallest things are sometimes unexpectedly intense.”

— Kelly Rimmer

11. “It’s not always the strongest trees that survive the storm. Sometimes it’s the trees that bend with the wind. And you, my treasure, find yourself right in a hurricane.”

— Kelly Rimmer

12. “War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive – but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen.”

— Kelly Rimmer

13. “Home is not the country we stand in – it’s us. Home is the future we have been planning and dreaming of. We can build it anywhere.”

— Kelly Rimmer

14. “To face the inhuman, one must become superhuman.”

— Kelly Rimmer

15. “True love is just a synonym for desperate dependency.”

— Kelly Rimmer

16. “If a man hits his wife once, she should leave, and if she stays – well, she deserves everything she gets after that.”

— Kelly Rimmer

17. “We didn’t realize that time has a way of racing past you – that the long hard days sometimes make for very short years.”

— Kelly Rimmer

18. “I could see that the lines on her face were not just from a lifetime of sadness, but a lifetime of really experiencing life.”

— Kelly Rimmer

19. “It’s funny how every single thing in your life can shatter with a single decision; and not a decision I had any control over. Everything is suddenly broken, and there is nothing I can do to fix it.”

— Kelly Rimmer

20. “There are some moments in life that are distorted by anticipation. It has a way of warping our expectations – inflating them somehow.”

— Kelly Rimmer

21. “I’d learned the hard way that loneliness was difficult to survive, but grief was infinitely worse.”

— Kelly Rimmer

22. “The human spirit is a miraculous thing. It is the strongest part of us – crushed under pressure, but rarely broken. Trapped within our weak and fallible bodies, but never contained.”

— Kelly Rimmer

23. “Maybe those bits and pieces from our past are important in case they one day need to act as a map to guide her back to the memories she cherishes.”

— Kelly Rimmer

24. “They meet someone who makes them laugh, and they laugh together, and the years melt away.”

— Kelly Rimmer

25. “Maybe it was his shampoo or deodorant – or both. Whatever it was, it was no doubt laden with methylchloroisothiazolinone and sodium laureth sulfate and God only knows what else. I should probably have warned him that he’s dousing himself with industrial chemicals that will mess with his endocrine system and fry his cell-aging process. The worst of it though.”

— Kelly Rimmer

26. “This is our family’s tragedy, and we each play a part in the suffering. By sharing it, we can survive it, because we subconsciously remind one another that one day soon, this will end, and we’ll still be standing side by side.”

— Kelly Rimmer

27. “There’s an odd sensation within my chest- the splintering and shattering of something precious that had been straining under pressure for years.”

— Kelly Rimmer

28. “You love like that only once in a lifetime – you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you’re changed and hardened by it.”

— Kelly Rimmer

29. “Hundreds of these decrees were passed, one by one. This is how polite society gives way to chaos. The collapse that comes at the end of the process is a consequence of the slow erosion over time.”

— Kelly Rimmer

30. “Sometimes the very act of creating can mean salvation for the artist.”

— Kelly Rimmer

31. “When I was younger, I thought that life was fair. I thought that maybe each person was allotted a degree of suffering, but once they endured it, life would be easy. Now I know it is random, and that if there is any intention to life at all, it leans toward cruelty.”

— Kelly Rimmer

32. “I know once I open the floodgates of feeling sorry for myself, I’ll get a taste for it and it will destroy me.”

— Kelly Rimmer

33. “I think you’ve lived a big life, and you’ve seen the four corners of the world and you’ve known fascinating people and achieved a lot. Maybe to you this relationship is just another part of all that, but to me, this has been a mind-blowing, soul-changing revelation. And to have you take that away from me because you could.”

— Kelly Rimmer

34. “You kids these days get to a point in your life where you try to have babies; we spent pretty much our whole life trying not to have babies – and sometimes we failed.”

— Kelly Rimmer

35. “That’s the problem with fairy-tale love – and there’s your wicked witch. True love is just a synonym for desperate dependency.”

— Kelly Rimmer

36. “Loneliness is so much worse than sadness, because loneliness, by definition, cannot be shared.”

— Kelly Rimmer

37. “It is a strange thing to know yourself, and to realise at the same time that you are merely the product of the nest within which you are raised – and that a different nest might easily have produced a different you.”

— Kelly Rimmer

38. “Hopelessness was a passive emotion, but its natural successor drove action, and that action rarely resulted in anything positive.”

— Kelly Rimmer

39. “What happens when stories like theirs are lost? What happens when there’s no one left to pass your experience on to, or you just can’t bring yourself to share it?”

— Kelly Rimmer

40. “There are many ways to fight, but striving for justice is always worth the battle.”

— Kelly Rimmer

41. “Whatever is ahead of you – please let it be ahead of us.”

— Kelly Rimmer

42. “For all of his flaws, I could not deny the lifetime of love and devotion he’d given to me.”

— Kelly Rimmer

43. “I didn’t believe in destiny – I still don’t – but somehow I knew to pay attention to the moment, as if I had just started a once-in-a-lifetime journey.”

— Kelly Rimmer

44. “What kind of monster did that make me? It was my darkest moment, wedged tightly in a period of so many dark moments that I’d look back on it for years and wonder how we both survived.”

— Kelly Rimmer

45. “It was a grief-drenched day, the kind of day where the hours drag and dissolve into nothing all at once; the kind of day when you wake the next morning and think it was just a bad dream, until the grit in your eyes and the heaviness in your chest remind you otherwise.”

— Kelly Rimmer

46. “She was a woman on her way towards peace.”

— Kelly Rimmer

47. “Why do I rail only against the things that help me, and never against my habit towards self-destruction?”

— Kelly Rimmer

48. “Goodbye, my beautiful baby,’ she whispered. ‘I’m so proud that you’ve done this your way.”

— Kelly Rimmer

49. “From the fear had grown courage, and from the courage had grown confidence, and now the stint at sea was a part of the fabric of my character.”

— Kelly Rimmer

50. “As long as you need us,’ Ed said. ‘There’s nowhere else in the world we need to be.”

— Kelly Rimmer