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41 " She’s tattooed herself onto my spirit. "
― Kelly Rimmer , The Secret Daughter
42 " just like love—in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain—it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s something that feels like a shield, until you realize it’s actually a warhead, and it’s pointed right at you. "
― Kelly Rimmer , Before I Let You Go
43 " and I know that I love Wade. Sometimes I also kind of hate him, but mostly, I love him. That’s marriage sometimes. That’s just the way it is; the years can’t all be kind, because life isn’t always kind. "
― Kelly Rimmer , The Things We Cannot Say
44 " I wanted to be a person who brought history to the next generation, because if we don’t learn about our history, how can we learn from it? And we have to learn from it, "
45 " Maybe playing a part in the Resistance isn’t even about winning a battle,” Elz·bieta said, after a pause. “Maybe it’s just about being true to your values. About standing up for the things you believe and those you love, even if you know you can’t win. "
― Kelly Rimmer , The Warsaw Orphan
46 " There are many ways to fight, but striving for justice is always worth the battle. "
47 " Life doesn’t work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads—it doesn’t burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it. You watch, sister—when they’re done with the Jews, it will be our turn again. Besides, even if we could ride out the war with our heads down, and we sat back while the Nazis worked all of our Jewish friends to death, what kind of Poland could be rebuilt once they were gone? Those people are as important to this country as we are. We’re better off dying with honor than sitting back to watch our countrymen suffer,” he said. "
48 " How do you believe in God when the world is so fucked up?’ The priest smiled sadly. ‘You’ve got it backwards. It’s because the world is so fucked up that I believe in God. "
― Kelly Rimmer , Me Without You
49 " Whatever is ahead of you—please let it be ahead of us. "
50 " I’d learned the hard way that loneliness was difficult to survive, but grief was infinitely worse. "
51 " There is something really, truly beautiful about having a place to call home,’ Lilah agreed softly. ‘But surely it’s got to be a base to return to, rather than an anchor. Ships only use their anchors between journeys, don’t they? "
52 " the long hard days sometimes make for very short years. "
53 " I think that everything has a good and a bad side—everything, even though at the time most things that happen in life seem to be entirely good or entirely bad,’ Lilah "
54 " Callum tells me he loves me dozens of times a day, but he doesn’t need to. Even if he was mute, I’d still get the message loud and clear, because his eyes and his hands and his kisses say it. The fact that he is still here says it. When he wordlessly chops peas in half so I can swallow them, I know he loves me. When I see him pretending to remake the bed for the fifth time when I go into the en suite to pee, I know he loves me. When I realise he’s cluttered up my bathroom floor with improvised floor mats—again—so that I don’t slip, even though it’s driving me completely insane to be babied like that—I know he loves me. "
55 " I live in the big house we’ve owned since David was a boy. I renovate when the whim takes me, and it takes me often, and the renovations are expensive. I get my hair done every fortnight, and I buy premium brands and I never, ever have to worry about how to pay the bills. Maybe I gave up some things to stay with Wyatt, and maybe even once he was an adult, I did it for David. I just don’t kid myself any more that there isn’t something in this life for me too. "
― Kelly Rimmer , A Mother's Confession
56 " The first was when I realised that I had fallen in love with my best friend. We were out at dinner with a group of friends, and over entrées, I caught him staring at me with such love and pride that I could have dissolved into his gaze. I managed to keep my startling realisation to myself for several hours – but as soon everyone else had gone home, I blurted it out in the middle of a totally unrelated conversation. Ted said that I had avoided eye contact with him all night and he’d been wondering why. He says that even when I do hide a secret in my words, my eyes give it away anyway . . . and that if I’d just looked at him that night, there would have been no need to open my mouth at all. "
57 " Maybe it was his shampoo or deodorant—or both. Whatever it was, it was no doubt laden with methylchloroisothiazolinone and sodium laureth sulfate and God only knows what else. I should probably have warned him that he’s dousing himself with industrial chemicals that will mess with his endocrine system and fry his cell-aging process. The worst of it though "
58 " tradition provides a roadmap, and that roadmap unexpectedly offers me a path through the worst of the grief. "
― Kelly Rimmer , Truths I Never Told You
59 " Becoming a parent forces you to be selfless, "
60 " You learn to adjust to a new reality where you’re no longer your own first priority . . . "