Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The path of life is darkest when we choose to walk it alone.”

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2. “But you never know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day. One day, one week, one month can change everything.”

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3. “The sand in the hourglass is running out, flowing relentlessly toward the end. There’s never enough time, not when a person has become a part of you.”

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4. “The bumps in the road have a funny way of turning into stepping stones.”

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5. “Let’s not forget the past. Let’s not forget the heroes who fought so that others could survive. Let’s not forget to be kind to our fellow man. Be nice if at all possible.”

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6. “We all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.”

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7. “My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.”

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8. “It is not your fault. Sometimes all the love in the world can’t protect a person against his fate.”

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9. “Vy priexali suda so svoyey docher’yu?”

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10. “Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?”

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11. “As long as there are stars in the sky, I will love you.”

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12. “I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It’s as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.”

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13. “Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It’s like one day, you just realize you’re not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it’s too late to change anything.”

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14. “You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world,” she continues, her expression turning earnest. “Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to become a family because you choose to! Maybe that’s the best way to make a family, don’t you think?”

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15. “Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.”

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16. “Was it possible that one sin could stain your soul forever? Or could one do enough good that a mistake of such magnitude could eventually be erased?”

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17. “You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin – though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.”

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18. “I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he’s the mature one.”

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19. “You can only do your part. You can do your best to strike a match in the darkness, to light the way. God is with you, always, and he sees what’s in your heart.”

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20. “There’s something almost miraculous about seeing a child’s eyes light up when you hand him a book that intrigues him. I’ve always thought that it’s those children – the ones who realize that books are magic – who will have the brightest lives.”

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21. “Every time someone hurts you, you carry a little piece of that with you. When it’s one of the people who’s supposed to love you most in the world, well, I’d imagine that takes a whole chunk out of your faith in humanity.”

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22. “Life changes you, even if you don’t realize it while it’s happening, and it turns out you can’t take back the years that have passed by.”

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23. “Do you think God speaks Arabic or Hebrew? Can he hear your prayers or mine?“... “I do not know.” “What do you think, Nabi?” The boy thought about this for a long time before replying. “I think God must speak all the languages.” His tone was confident. “I think he can heal all of us.”

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24. “Our greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in getting up each time we fail.”

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25. “I’ve always thought that it’s those children – the ones who realize that books are magic – who will have the brightest lives.”

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26. “It was 11:04 when Patrick walked through the door that final night almost a dozen years ago. I remember.”

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27. “Her mother had once told her that some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on.”

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28. “But in life, Emily, for every path you decide to walk down, there’s a path you’ve decided to turn away from. Each fork in the road leads us further from where we began. And one cannot look back. Only forward. Otherwise, you’ll get stuck standing in place.”

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29. “Yes, I am Jewish,” she says. “But I am also Catholic.” She pauses and adds, “And Muslim too.”... “It is all the same, is it not? It is mankind that creates the differences. That does not mean it is not all the same God.”

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30. “Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”

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31. “Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.”

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32. “Life doesn’t work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it’s supposed to after all.”

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33. “Perhaps that was what it was like to love someone deeply: to feel that no matter how many moments together you were granted, there would never be enough.”

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34. “She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.”

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35. “I am, too, but the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear.”

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36. “But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”

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37. “You have to be absolutely sure. Otherwise, regret will grow in spaces you don’t even know are there.”

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38. “There’s never enough time, not when a person has become a part of you.”

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39. “When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.”

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40. “They are erasing us, and we are helping them.”

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41. “I think its just human nature to wish that the people who are gone from our lives are going to come back.”

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42. “It occurs to me how mundane this moment would be if this was really the life I was living.”

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43. “My room is lined with books, most of them stacked in precarious piles on the bowing bookshelves Louis assembled years ago. They are filled with other people’s stories, and I’ve spent my life disappearing into them. Sometimes, when the nights are dark and silent and I’m alone, I wonder if I would have survived without the escape their pages offered me from reality. Then again, perhaps they just gave me an excuse to duck out of my own life.”

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44. “I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?”

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45. “He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.”

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46. “We are not so different then.“... “I never understood the war between our religions, or the war with Christianity. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.”

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47. “Hope was a dangerous thief, stealing her today’s for a tomorrow that would never come.”

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48. “Books, wherever they were in the world, always felt like home to her.”

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49. “Prayers are just words.” “But they’re words that remind us that there’s something out there greater than ourselves. And they’re words that lead us to be the best versions of ourselves.”

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50. “I would tell you that the things we do in life can be mistakes, but the road we find ourselves on never is.”

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