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141 " maybe the best way to change your life is to look inside yourself. But that’s harder to do, isn’t it? "
― Kristin Harmel , When We Meet Again
142 " But considering the way so many records were lost or destroyed in the war, it shouldn’t be difficult to plant a few pieux mensonges, white lies. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Winemaker's Wife
143 " And isn’t that the moral of the story anyhow? You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Book of Lost Names
144 " Sometimes, God’s plans are different from ours, and it’s impossible to know why, "
― Kristin Harmel , The Room on Rue Amelie
145 " Now I think pain loses its power when we share it. "
146 " Would you have traded the life you’ve had with me for one with evil parents, just because it came with love?” “I don’t know,” Yona said. “You never gave me the chance to choose. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Forest of Vanishing Stars
147 " 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 "
148 " 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. "
149 " But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. "
150 " it’s what’s inside a person that counts. And sometimes, you have to walk through fire in order to find your true self. Maybe this is your fire. "
151 " must honor the past without turning our backs on the future. "
152 " It's not the life I planned, but somehow, it's the life I was intended to have. And now, finally, I'm ready to embrace it. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Life Intended
153 " Hope, you can’t go through life living by all the rules and doing what people expect of you without thinking for yourself, you know? That’s how you wake up at the age of eighty or whatever and realize life has passed you by. "
― Kristin Harmel , The Sweetness of Forgetting
154 " It is gentle and fierce, forgiving and demanding, and once it finds you, it lives in your heart forever. "
155 " 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. "
156 " because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we’ve lived before they came along. I "
157 " But if we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us. We cannot do that, Eva. We cannot. "
158 " 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. "
159 " docher’yu? "
160 " The path of life is darker when we choose to walk it alone "