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61 " 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 , The Forest of Vanishing Stars
62 " 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. "
63 " ... It's a tradition my great-grandfather started almost a hundred years ago, after my father was born. He gave my father fifty newly minted silver dollars and explained that each time something really amazing happened to him, he had to return one of the dollars to the universe so that someone else could wish on it." I smile, recalling how Patrick had once told me a story of his grandfather standing on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1936 and throwing a silver dollar into the water after his beloved Yankees won the World Series. They won it for the next three years too, and his grandfather always believed that it was his coins - good luck returned to the universe - that kept their streak alive...... My father always used to tell me that if you keep the coins, you throw things out of balance... It's all about passing the luck on and thanking the world for whatever good things have happened to you. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Life Intended
64 " It reminds me suddenly that in real life, Patrick and I used to fight sometimes, big and messy...And I hadn't been scared to argue with him, because I'd never feared him walking away. So why am I so scared to fight with Dan now? Or with anyone in my life, for that matter? I've spend the last decade thinking of myself as even-tempered and reasonable. But what if I've just been a chicken? What if I'm so terrified of losing the people I love that I've been slowly giving away pieces of myself just to avoid confrontation? "
65 " But if there’s one thing I’ve learned since the start of the war, it’s that as long as we believe, we take our faith with us, whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Book of Lost Names
66 " Every time a good soul dies, I think the world gets a little darker. "
67 " I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he’s the mature one. "
68 " 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. "
69 " 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 , The Room on Rue Amelie
70 " 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
71 " When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Winemaker's Wife
72 " 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. "
73 " But fate is part chance and part choice, "
74 " Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful. "
75 " And you’re not broken, Yona. It’s the cracks in us that make us who we are, and you… you are stronger than anyone I have ever met, I think. "
76 " Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Sweetness of Forgetting
77 " Somehow along the way, I let myself be erased, "
78 " I am, too, but the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear. "
79 " 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. "
80 " For when you love, you stand to lose so much. "