Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2026 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’m doing the best I can, it’s usually not good enough and that’s just the way it is.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

7. “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

8. “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

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. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

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

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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

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

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

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

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “To face the inhuman, one must become superhuman.”

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24. “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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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.”

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

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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. “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.”

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

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32. “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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33. “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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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. “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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36. “Goodbye, my beautiful baby,’ she whispered. ‘I’m so proud that you’ve done this your way.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “They meet someone who makes them laugh, and they laugh together, and the years melt away.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “Sometimes the very act of creating can mean salvation for the artist.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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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45. “Sometimes, darkness would settle over me and I would pace the hallway with her in my arms, thinking things that were too dark to even acknowledge.”

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46. “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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47. “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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48. “There’s an odd sensation within my chest- the splintering and shattering of something precious that had been straining under pressure for years.”

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49. “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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50. “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