Quotes from Kristin Harmel

It occurs to me how mundane this moment would be if this was really the life I was living.

I would tell you that the things we do in life can be mistakes, but the road we find ourselves on never is.

You can only do your part. You can do your best to strike a match in the darkness, to light the way. God is with you, always, and he sees what's in your heart.

Perhaps that 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.

It's you," he said softly when finally he was at her side. "It's you," she breathed, and then his lips were on hers, and he was kissing her in a way that made her forget the world around them for a few precious seconds.

our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

We all suffer losses. But it is how we choose to move ahead that matters, isn't it? We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.

It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

I know it's sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn't it better than believing the worst, though?

Only you know what your relationship is with God, and you should never let anyone take that from you.

You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world," she continues, her expression turning earnest. "Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to become a family because you choose to! Maybe that's the best way to make a family, don't you think?

So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.

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.

I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

I used to think that memories were less painful when you held them close. I think perhaps that isn't true, though. Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.

sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.

It is not your fault. Sometimes all the love in the world can't protect a person against his fate.

The path of life is darker when we choose to walk it alone

Somehow along the way, I let myself be erased,

But 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.

But the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear.

Chérie, guardo scomparire le stelle», spiegò dopo un minuto. «Perché?» domando io. «Perché anche se non riesci a vederle sono sempre là» disse. «Si stanno solo nascondendo dietro il sole.» «E con questo?» replicai timidamente io. Lei mi lasciò andare e si chinò per guardarmi negli occhi. «Tesoro mio, è bello rammentare che non sempre hai bisogno di vedere qualcosa per sapere che c'è.»

Nessuno ha la vita che si aspettava, ma è il modo in cui ci si adatta alle difficoltà a determinare se si è felici o no.