Top 180 Kristin Harmel Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming,” I say after a pause. “I already had my prince, and if there’s another one out there, great. But I’m not sitting around waiting to get rescued. It’s time that I’m the one doing the saving.”

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152. “As soon as I close the door behind him, I reach for the phone and call the main number for Delta. Ten minutes later, I’m rebooked on the 3:11 flight today, leaving six hours earlier and arriving in Berlin at 10:50 tomorrow morning after a connection in New York. I didn’t exactly lie to Ben, I reassure myself. I am changing my flight, just like I said.”

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153. “But God believes in you, my dear,” Sister Maria Andrzeja replied immediately. She looked up and held Yona’s gaze. “And that makes us all the same, all over the world.”

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154. “She wished she could grab the memories like lifelines and hold on before she went under. But she found them slippery, impossible to grasp.”

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155. “We all suffer losses. But it is how we choose to move ahead that matters, isn’t it? We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.”

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156. “I don’t know much about these things. But I think that broken hearts heal. I think that perhaps the only way through that kind of pain is to move forward. I think that losing people you love changes you forever, but I think that God finds a way to let the light in.”

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157. “Ben has never really known me. He knew the pieces I chose to give to him, the body that nursed him, the voice that scolded him, the hands that soothed him. But there is so much more to me, pieces that had nothing to do with my role as his mother, pieces I never let him see.”

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158. “I knew on some level that he was right, but my anger toward my dad was like a badge of honor, something that united my mom and me. Letting it go would be like losing a piece of who I was.”

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159. “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.”

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160. “It’s you,” he said softly when finally he was at her side. “It’s you,” she breathed, and then his lips were on hers, and he was kissing her in a way that made her forget the world around them for a few precious seconds.”

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161. “Home is not a place but the people you choose to love.”

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162. “Once you discover that you can make magic with a brush, painting becomes like breathing. You can’t live without.”

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163. “Because, my dear, it is good to remember that you do not always have to see something to know that it is there.”

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

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166. “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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167. “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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168. “Maybe the lie wasn’t as wrong if it wasn’t uttered aloud.”

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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “No. You’ll know it when I propose.” He held her gaze for a long time before breaking a grin.”

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

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

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177. “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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178. “You got the library wrong, Eva.”

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

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

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182. “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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183. “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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