Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “I finally discovered that the love I have for my children is the most powerful thing on earth. It’s fierce and determined and an absolute force to be reckoned with. I would do anything for them. On a good day I know that I am far from a perfect mother, but I am all they have, and all I can do is to make sure that I expend every breath trying to do my best.”

— Kelly Rimmer

54. “He told me that he was in this for life, baby or no baby. And that was that.”

— Kelly Rimmer

55. “I resolved then and there to become a woman and a mother who hugged. There was something so generous about the gesture.”

— Kelly Rimmer

56. “We have to take joy where we find it, even on the worst days.”

— Kelly Rimmer

57. “All I know is that I made a decision to follow David back here to the country because I believed that was what we needed – what he needed – and I didn’t spare a single thought to what I actually wanted for myself.”

— Kelly Rimmer

58. “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

59. “The hatred had become almost self-generating now, infecting every corner of our society. It had grown so big and so dark, it threatened to suffocate us.”

— Kelly Rimmer

60. “One of the remarkable things about my wife is that she never shies away from her past, no matter how ugly it is. She has this theory that you only kill the demons by bringing them to light.”

— Kelly Rimmer

61. “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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

63. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

64. “Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

66. “I have no idea what happens after you go, but it will be better because I knew you.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

68. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

70. “I want to pretend this is the middle of our life together. I want to pretend we’ve had decades and we have decades left. I want to pretend that we know everything about each other but we haven’t run out of things to talk about, because we just like to hear each other speak.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

72. “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

73. “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

74. “When the time is right, I’ll be honest about who I am – my name and my heritage, and you’ll see what I knew all along. When a man is a patient on an operating table, and there’s only one person in the room with the skills to save his life, that patient will instantly forget that he used to be a bigot.”

— Kelly Rimmer

75. “I could snap myself out of the darkest moments only by reminding myself that things would get better.”

— Kelly Rimmer

76. “Life is a journey. You don’t have to travel, but you always have to be going somewhere or you stagnate.”

— Kelly Rimmer

77. “I live in the big house we’ve owned since David was a boy. I renovate when the whim takes me, and it takes me often, and the renovations are expensive. I get my hair done every fortnight, and I buy premium brands and I never, ever have to worry about how to pay the bills. Maybe I gave up some things to stay with Wyatt, and maybe even once he was an adult, I did it for David. I just don’t kid myself any more that there isn’t something in this life for me too.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

79. “I love being a Mum, but it’s still the most terrifying aspect of my life.”

— Kelly Rimmer

80. “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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81. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

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

— Kelly Rimmer

83. “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

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

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

— Kelly Rimmer

86. “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.”

— Kelly Rimmer

87. “I want answers and it should never have.”

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88. “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