Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 2 of 4

51. “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

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

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

— Kristin Harmel

56. “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

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

59. “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

60. “You can’t always change other people’s minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can’t you?”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

63. “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

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

66. “I’m broken, too. But sometimes it’s the jagged edges that allow us to fit together. Sometimes it’s the breaks that make us strong.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

70. “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

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

— Kristin Harmel

72. “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

73. “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

74. “The universe is always in balance, she said – summer and winter, day and night, sustenance and poison, good and evil. To know the light, you must also know the darkness.”

— Kristin Harmel

75. “Vy moshennitsa?”

— Kristin Harmel

76. “One’s reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

80. “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

81. “You can only look forward in life. You can change the future, but not the past.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

83. “It is mankind that creates the differences, she’d told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.”

— Kristin Harmel

84. “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

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

— Kristin Harmel

86. “Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

88. “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

89. “Yes, but mine were never as good as yours.” She could feel his smile against her cheek as she whispered into his ear. “I admit it now. So I am glad you are here with your documents.” He paused and added, ‘Well, actually, I am simply glad you are here.”

— Kristin Harmel

90. “Someone who sees her reflection in the words.”

— Kristin Harmel

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

— Kristin Harmel

92. “Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die.’ This is our country, my dear, and I will fight for its honor to the end.”

— Kristin Harmel

93. “There are truly terrible people in this world.” Ruby pulled Charlotte into a hug. “But there are good people too. And I like to think that.”

— Kristin Harmel

94. “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

95. “But when you grow comfortable hiding within a protective shell, it’s harder than one might expect to stand up and say, “Actually, folks, this is who I am.”

— Kristin Harmel

96. “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

97. “By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.”

— Kristin Harmel

98. “Later that night, after Mamusia had gone to sleep, Tatus found Eva in the small library off the parlor, shelves piled high with all the books the two of them treasured so much. 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.”

— Kristin Harmel

99. “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

100. “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.”

— Kristin Harmel