Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 2 of 4

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

— Kristin Harmel

52. “Lives are circles spinning across the world, and when they’re meant to intersect again, they do. There’s nothing we can do to stop it.”

— Kristin Harmel

53. “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.”

— Kristin Harmel

54. “Only you know what your relationship is with God, and you should never let anyone take that from you.”

— Kristin Harmel

55. “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.”

— Kristin Harmel

56. “I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.”

— Kristin Harmel

57. “Vy moshennitsa?”

— Kristin Harmel

58. “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.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

61. “Love was a funny thing, Peter thought. You grow up thinking you will have some control over it – when you will fall in love, who you will fall in love with. But then life surprises you out of nowhere, and you fall in love when the world is falling apart.”

— Kristin Harmel

62. “I am a big believer that in life, things happen the way they are supposed to.”

— Kristin Harmel

63. “Because books bring us to another time and place,” the woman said as she handed over Eva’s pens and accepted the francs Eva gave her. “And you look as if you need that.”

— Kristin Harmel

64. “France may have turned her back. But did that mean that Eva could do the same when lives hung in the balance?”

— Kristin Harmel

65. “But if we want to defeat darkness, we must find our own way to the light. We have to follow our hearts and accept the danger. I.”

— Kristin Harmel

66. “I used to think that memories were less painful when you held them close. I think perhaps that isn’t true though. Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.”

— Kristin Harmel

67. “Do you know what else this very wise person told me?” he asks. “She said that we’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. And I believe, Mrs. Abrams, that you chose to be a hero, even if you don’t see it that way.” He.”

— Kristin Harmel

68. “You do honor her – and me – every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.”

— Kristin Harmel

69. “We all come into this world with our fate unwritten, Yona. Your identity isn’t determined by your birth. All that matters is what we make ourselves into, what we choose to do with our lives.” Forest of Vanishing Stars.”

— Kristin Harmel

70. “It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.”

— Kristin Harmel

71. “Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.”

— Kristin Harmel

72. “We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”

— Kristin Harmel

73. “Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.”

— Kristin Harmel

74. “Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.”

— Kristin Harmel

75. “Every time a good soul dies, I think the world gets a little darker.”

— Kristin Harmel

76. “One must never question God, Jerusza had always told her. It is our job on earth only to seek to understand him, never to doubt his will.”

— Kristin Harmel

77. “In the times of greatest darkness, the light always shines through, because there are people who stand up to do brave, decent things.”

— Kristin Harmel

78. “But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. “By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.”

— Kristin Harmel

79. “Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.”

— Kristin Harmel

80. “But maybe it shouldn’t be. Perhaps they need only know whether you are kind, decent, capable, well-intentioned. It is within your own heart that you find God. And we all walk our own path toward him. Don’t we?”

— Kristin Harmel

81. “In life, my dear, you must actually go after what you want. You can’t rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.”

— Kristin Harmel

82. “This isn’t a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It’s about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.”

— Kristin Harmel

83. “You can’t rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.”

— Kristin Harmel

84. “I am not sure about anything. But if we don’t have hope, we don’t have anything.”

— Kristin Harmel

85. “It’s never too late to find true love,” he says, locking eyes with me. “You just have to keep your heart open.”

— Kristin Harmel

86. “You do not have to love everything about a place to carry it in your heart.”

— Kristin Harmel

87. “I know it’s sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn’t it better than believing the worst, though?”

— Kristin Harmel

88. “But if we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us. We cannot do that, Eva. We cannot.”

— Kristin Harmel

89. “Be nice if at all possible. It’s such simple advice, but if we can all do that, every day, maybe we can be the change. Maybe we can stand together. Maybe we can build the world a better future. Here’s to lighting a candle, or a piece of wood, in the darkness – and.”

— Kristin Harmel

90. “Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.” “But what if I don’t want to be Jewish?”

— Kristin Harmel

91. “Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.”

— Kristin Harmel

92. “Life gets complicated. Circumstance tears us apart. Decisions guide our fate. But your heart will always show you true north.”

— Kristin Harmel

93. “This is where the war in Europe ended, on May 7, at 2:41 in the morning.” “Wait, World War II ended here? In Reims?”

— Kristin Harmel

94. “It’s the cracks in us that make us who we are, Zus had said, and perhaps he’d been right. When a linden tree broke, it often grew back, stronger and more beautiful in its damaged places. What if the same was true for man?”

— Kristin Harmel

95. “There’s danger in being principled in the midst of a war, but I believe that it’s more dangerous not to be.” “What do you mean?” He seemed to be searching for the words. “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?”

— Kristin Harmel

96. “Humans had a responsibility to do more than just protect themselves. In the face of evil, they were compelled to save each other.”

— Kristin Harmel

97. “Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.”

— Kristin Harmel

98. “The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming.”

— Kristin Harmel

99. “Books change the world, I think.”

— Kristin Harmel

100. “The only thing that remained was the only thing that mattered: love – the kind that could be found in the darkness when all pretenses had disappeared, the kind born of pain and despair and hope, the kind that was a shelter in the storm.”

— Kristin Harmel