Quotes from Kristin Harmel

vengeance would only taste sweet for a second, and then it would be a permanent stain on her soul.

I mean that love is all around us," Alain says. "But the older we get, the more confusing it becomes. The more times we've been hurt, the harder it is to see love right in front of us, or to accept love into our hearts and truly believe in it. And if you cannot accept love, you can never really feel it.

It's never too late to find true love," he says, locking eyes with me. "You just have to keep your heart open.

There are truly terrible people in this world." Ruby pulled Charlotte into a hug. "But there are good people too. And I like to think that

is present wherever love can be found, her mother used to say.

I knew on some level that he was right, but my anger toward my dad was like a badge of honor, something that united my mom and me. Letting it go would be like losing a piece of who I was.

too." She couldn't believe she'd said the words aloud. How could she still be so angry with Lucie?

Maybe I owed it to him - and to myself, in a way - to try harder to understand where he was coming from, but the thought of letting down my walls was terrifying. It was my anger that kept me safe.

But there is light, too. In the times of greatest darkness, the light always shines through, because there are people who stand up to do brave, decent things.

was what it was like to love someone deeply: to feel that no matter how many moments together you were granted, there would never be enough.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. You know?

have a habit of me mettre le doigt dans l'oeil —um, putting my foot in my mouth sometimes.

There is no need to thank me. It was our duty. In our religion, we are taught, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world.'

give to those in need and to do it quietly, for God will know your deeds.

What has happened to us? She asked. To this country? The world has gone mad, Jacob murmured.

The bumps in the road have a funny way of turning into stepping stones

I think that broken hearts heal. I think that perhaps the only way through that kind of pain is to move forward. I think that losing people you love changes you forever, but I think that God finds a way to let the light in.

I never understood the discord between our religions. 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 separates us.

I know that now, in the world today, young people take freedom for granted. All the things you have, all of the freedoms you enjoy, they are things you were born with.

It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

And you can't just love something when it's easy, can you? That's not real love.

It is mankind that creates the differences, she'd told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.

You can't heal a heart that has been smashed to pieces; you can only move forward, doing your best to hold the shards together until they eventually form into something new.

being Jewish is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of." "Then why do my classmates mock me?" Charlotte could see him flinch, but he answered calmly. "Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.