Quotes from Kristin Harmel

They are erasing us, and we are helping them.

Il semplice fatto che l'amore esista non significa che io sia capace di provarlo.

Books change the world, I think.

I'm broken, too. But sometimes it's the jagged edges that allow us to fit together. Sometimes it's the breaks that make us strong.

The only thing that remained was the only thing that mattered: love—the kind that could be found in the darkness when all pretenses had disappeared, the kind born of pain and despair and hope, the kind that was a shelter in the storm.

Once you've fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn't belong.

Every time a good soul dies, I think the world gets a little darker.

I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he's the mature one.

But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. "By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

No one was who they appeared to be in those days, mademoiselle. The Thierrys seemed to be collaborators, for example, so who would have thought that they were actually working with de Vogüé to undermine the Germans? At Piper-Heidsieck, the owners were hiding guns. At Krug, they were hiding pilots." He tapped the base of Liv's glass and added, "This champagne represents history, my dear. Heroism. Bravery. The people behind these wines helped save France.

We all come into this world with our fate unwritten, Yona. Your identity isn't determined by your birth. All that matters is what we make ourselves into, what we choose to do with our lives." Forest of Vanishing Stars

Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.

But fate is part chance and part choice,

But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

But if we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us. We cannot do that, Eva. We cannot.

incredible how familiar the place feels, though I've never been here. Once you've fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn't belong.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.

And you're not broken, Yona. It's the cracks in us that make us who we are, and you… you are stronger than anyone I have ever met, I think.

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

For when you love, you stand to lose so much.

But if we want to defeat darkness, we must find our own way to the light. We have to follow our hearts and accept the danger. I

But no good comes of giving away pieces of our heart in the midst of a war." Pere Clément waited until she looked up and met his eye. "It's dangerous, Eva." Eva knew then that he wasn't just talking about the children. She thought of Rémy, whom she'd been seeing less of lately as he became more involved in running errands for the underground. "It's more dangerous not to, I think.