Top 80 Kelly Rimmer Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

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

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53. “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

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

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55. “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?”

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56. “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.”

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

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58. “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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59. “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?”

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60. “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.”

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

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

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

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65. “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.”

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66. “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.”

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

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68. “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.”

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

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

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71. “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.”

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72. “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

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

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

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

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76. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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84. “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.”

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85. “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.”

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

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

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88. “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