Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?”

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152. “For when you love, you stand to lose so much.”

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153. “Indeed, Yona has little experience with the way people were supposed to interact with each other. But, she know enough to know that when a man loved a woman, he didn’t do this. Not a good man, anyhow.”

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154. “Oh, for goodness’ sake, there’s your rabbit-in-the-headlights look again.” He rolled his eyes, “Now, be a sport and hold my hand, will you? Your solider friend is coming back.”

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155. “Maybe the lie wasn’t as wrong if it wasn’t uttered aloud.”

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156. “I’m in a place foreign to me, but there’s something about Paris that feels very familiar. I wonder for the first time if a sense of place can be passed down through the blood.”

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157. “Most of our portfolio is brut or extra brut, which means that it contains less than twelve grams per liter of residual sugar, or less than a half teaspoon per five-ounce glass.”

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158. “The truth is, since the day I met her, it’s all been for her. My whole life. My whole existence. I don’t know how I’ll say good-bye.”

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159. “No. You’ll know it when I propose.” He held her gaze for a long time before breaking a grin.”

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160. “Maybe I owed it to him – and to myself, in a way – to try harder to understand where he was coming from, but the thought of letting down my walls was terrifying. It was my anger that kept me safe.”

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161. “Even if life transforms us, we are all who we are at our core, our whole lives through.”

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162. “You didn’t think that was just a holiday for them, did you? Surely you don’t expect me to let them simply sit around and play. Their brains would turn to soup.”

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163. “It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else’s prejudices.”

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164. “For it is only by loving, and having the courage to be loved in return, that you can find God, who exists most of all in.”

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165. “You got the library wrong, Eva.”

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166. “In the spring, tattered and emaciated Jews who had spent the war in the concentration camps to the east had begun to return. Those who had lost family members peered into the faces of these walking skeletons, struggling to find the people they were so sure they’d never see again. Sometimes, there were joyous reunions. Mostly, though, the survivors returned to find that everyone they loved had perished and that their reward for enduring hell was a renewed sense of loss and despair.”

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167. “And you can’t just love something when it’s easy, can you? That’s not real love.”

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168. “Yearning for a life you don’t understand is like staring at the sun. Your foolishness will destroy you.”

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169. “When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.” She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. “And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.”

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170. “I smile tightly at him. I’m allowed to feel annoyed with my daughter, but he’s not. “She’s just going through a hard time,” I say.”

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171. “Please, don’t apologize. These are the moments I live for. Reuniting a book with its rightful owner can be magical.”

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172. “Because books bring us to another time and place,” the.”

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173. “Yona shook her head. “He sees me as more than I am, I think.” “No. He sees you for exactly who you are. And that is very difficult for him.”

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174. “There was a difference between honoring the past and being trapped by it.”

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175. “The word choice was strange, but I nodded, because she was right. It was inconvenient to love someone who would never love you the same way, because it held you back in life. It tied you to something you could never have.”

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

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177. “I meant that in a way I’m like Dorothee, aren’t I? I’m on a great adventure and one day I’ll find my way home.”

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178. “They are erasing us, and we are helping them. “Because someone should remember. How else will they find their way home?”

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179. “Some chapters must be finished, though, some books closed.”

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180. “But I think you stand to lose far more when your heart is closed,” Chaim said. “That is no life.”

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181. “Her mother lived in a world of black and white, and Eva knew that neither of those colors existed, not really; it was all a spectrum of gray.”

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182. “It was the war that kept us apart. The world went mad, and your grandfather was no more responsible for the outcome than I was, or than Rose was. We all made our choices. We all had to live with our regrets.”

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183. “She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans – it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.”

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