Quotes from Kristin Harmel

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.

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.

It is gentle and fierce, forgiving and demanding, and once it finds you, it lives in your heart forever.

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.

Indeed, Yona has little experience with the way people were supposed to interact with each other. But, she know enough to know that when a man loved a woman, he didn't do this. Not a good man, anyhow.

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.

You can only look forward in life. You can change the future, but not the past.

It was the war that kept us apart. The world went mad, and your grandfather was no more responsible for the outcome than I was, or than Rose was. We all made our choices. We all had to live with our regrets.

Life gets complicated. Circumstance tears us apart. Decisions guide our fate. But your heart will always show you true north.

While she respected his intellect, sometimes his inability to err could be stifling. It left no room for Inès to have thoughts or opinions that differed from his.

But you never know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day. One day, one week, one month can change everything.

know whether you are kind, decent, capable, well-intentioned. It is within your own heart that you find God. And we all walk our own path toward him. Don't we?

But they're words that remind us that there's something out there greater than ourselves. And they're words that lead us to be the best versions of ourselves.

By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

For it is only by loving, and having the courage to be loved in return, that you can find God, who exists most of all in

Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.

She wished she could grab the memories like lifelines and hold on before she went under. But she found them slippery, impossible to grasp.

Maybe in the end you can't run from who you are without destroying your life.

Distraction wasn't an impenatrable dam.

This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.

When you're young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past." She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. "And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans—it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.

You see, when you look back on things later in life, it's sometimes easier to see the purpose. So perhaps for now, it's best to try your hardest to focus on what lies ahead. The future is still something that can be changed, isn't it?

Once you discover that you can make magic with a brush, painting becomes like breathing. You can't live without