Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— 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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

7. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

9. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

12. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

17. “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

18. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

21. “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?”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

23. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

25. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

33. “We can’t change anything that happened, but we can mine the good out of how it all panned out and build a better future from it. For.”

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34. “The things she sees as impulsive in my history reflect my lack of courage, not impulsiveness – all of the times when I didn’t dare warn her in advance that I wanted so desperately to take a different path to the one she’d chosen for me.”

— Kelly Rimmer

35. “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

36. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

37. “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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38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

43. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

45. “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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46. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

47. “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

48. “Isn’t an adult just a child, shaped by experience? How does a person learn not to hate, when that hate has been imprinted upon them from such a young age?”

— Kelly Rimmer

49. “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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50. “My experience is that addiction is always related to some disconnection – perceived or real – often rooted deep in some historical trauma. It takes an almost superhuman strength to overcome a narcotics addiction, because it takes an almost superhuman strength to look honestly at your past and yourself and ask – how can I heal?”

— Kelly Rimmer