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101 " You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Book of Lost Names
102 " The path of life is darkest when we choose to walk it alone. "
103 " It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Winemaker's Wife
104 " Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power; "
― Kristin Harmel , The Forest of Vanishing Stars
105 " some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Room on Rue Amelie
106 " I know it’s sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn’t it better than believing the worst, though? "
107 " Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant. "
108 " Do you think God speaks Arabic or Hebrew? Can he hear your prayers or mine?"... "I do not know." "What do you think, Nabi?" The boy thought about this for a long time before replying. "I think God must speak all the languages." His tone was confident. "I think he can heal all of us. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Sweetness of Forgetting
109 " 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. "
110 " I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest. "
111 " 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. "
112 " You’re not Jewish.” “No, I’m Catholic. And in the end, Catholicism isn’t really so different. Believing in God is at the core of our faith, just like yours, "
113 " We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future. "
114 " Loss would forever be etched on the child like a tattoo; it might fade over time, but it would never be erased. "
115 " 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. "
116 " 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. "
117 " It was 11:04 when Patrick walked through the door that final night almost a dozen years ago. I remember "
― Kristin Harmel , The Life Intended
118 " 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. "
119 " France may have turned her back. But did that mean that Eva could do the same when lives hung in the balance? "
120 " nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten. "