Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

3. “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.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “I suppose when I’ve felt lost in time, my journal has been an odd type of compass.”

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

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

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10. “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.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “I’m doing the best I can, it’s usually not good enough and that’s just the way it is.”

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13. “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.”

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

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15. “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.”

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

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17. “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.”

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

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

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20. “Life doesn’t work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads – it doesn’t burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it.”

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

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22. “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?”

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23. “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.”

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

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25. “There is something really, truly beautiful about having a place to call home,’ Lilah agreed softly. ‘But surely it’s got to be a base to return to, rather than an anchor. Ships only use their anchors between journeys, don’t they?”

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

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27. “It is the only truth I live by. Everything else is gone. We are made for each other, meant to be together. It doesn’t matter what happens in this life or the next, Alina. We’ll always find our way back to each other.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “We really were about to become a family of our own, and regardless of anything else going on in my life or even my mind, that was beyond wonderful.”

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “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.”

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

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34. “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.”

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

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

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37. “Addiction is, in that way, just like love – in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain – it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s something that feels like a shield, until you realize it’s actually a warhead, and it’s pointed right at you.”

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

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39. “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.”

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40. “Time has a way of deluding how we remember things, but there are some memories too pure for even the ravages of the years.”

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41. “But as I read about World War II, I was inspired by so many stories of love and survival, even in the face of unimaginable oppression and cruelty. Tomasz’s, Alina’s and Saul’s story became clear in my mind as I marveled at the way that not even the worst of humanity is powerful enough to stamp out grace or hope or love.”

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42. “There’d be extraordinary beauty in the ordinary intimacy of our life together, and I’d never feel disconnected again.”

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43. “There is something really, truly beautiful about having a place to call home,’ Lilah.”

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44. “We come from a line of women who could make something out of nothing.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “Not for the first time, I wish just once when I asked my grandmother about the war, instead of her telling me “that was a terrible time, I don’t want to talk about it,” she’d been able to say something more. Anything more. Maybe if she could have shared some of her story, I could have learned from it, I could have taught my children from it – we could have built a better world from the hard lessons she surely learned.”

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47. “She’s tattooed herself onto my spirit.”

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48. “There’s a reason most cultures have some version of marriage, some kind of lifelong commitment. People need the security of knowing their partner will stick with them regardless of what kind of uptight ogre they turn into in old age.”

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49. “Life isn’t fair,’ she whispered. ‘But that doesn’t mean it has to be cruel.”

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50. “Our life had become a fragile chaos;.”

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