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1 " I'd love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don't have one to give. "
― Kelly Rimmer , Me Without You
2 " Why do I rail only against the things that help me, and never against my habit towards self-destruction? "
― Kelly Rimmer , Before I Let You Go
3 " It costs our ancestors too damned much for us to have this life - the best thing we can do to honor them is to live it to its fullest. "
― Kelly Rimmer , The Things We Cannot Say
4 " Life has a way of shattering our expectations, of leaving our hopes in pieces without explanation. But when there's love in a family, the fragments left behind from our shattered dreams can always be pulled together again, even if the end result is a mosaic. "
5 " Life doesn't work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads - it doesn't burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it. "
6 " Life has a way of reminding you that you are at the mercy of chance, and that even well-thought-out plans can turn to chaos in an instant. "
7 " I can't wait to tell him how much of a revelation it has been to do something like this - standing on a mountaintop for no reason other than the sake of the experience. This moment is an investment in myself. I'm giving myself permission to make a memory that benefits no one but me. I love being a mother, and I love being a wife. I even love being a daughter and a granddaughter. But as I stand here on the mountaintop, I'm not any of those things. I am simply Alice, and for one breathtaking moment, I'm completely present. "
8 " What happens when stories like theirs are lost? What happens when there’s no one left to pass your experience on to, or you just can’t bring yourself to share it? "
9 " Such an awful situation only brings out the best in humanity. "
10 " She could be barefoot for the rest of our lives and I'd love her disgustingly filthy feet with every bit of strength I had. "
11 " I could snap myself out of the darkest moments only by reminding myself that things would get better "
― Kelly Rimmer , The Secret Daughter
12 " Time has a way of deluding how we remember things, but there are some memories too pure for even the ravages of the years. "
13 " War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive—but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen. "
14 " I knew with absolute certainty that small problems in a country can become immense tragedies when left unchecked. It started small in Germany. It even started small in Poland, long before the occupation. It started with a small group of people harassing and vandalizing and desecrating, and it ended with trainloads of my countrymen shipped to furnaces and dumped into a river. I "
15 " just because our suffering isn’t the worst, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t count. "
16 " It’s funny how every single thing in your life can shatter with a single decision; and not a decision I had any control over. Everything is suddenly broken, and there is nothing I can do to fix it. "
17 " Loneliness is so much worse than sadness, because loneliness, by definition, cannot be shared. "
― Kelly Rimmer , Truths I Never Told You
18 " We didn’t realize that time has a way of racing past you—that the long hard days sometimes make for very short years. "
19 " I’m doing the best I can, it’s usually not good enough and that’s just the way it is. "
20 " Maybe those bits and pieces from our past are important in case they one day need to act as a map to guide her back to the memories she cherishes. "
