Quotes from Kristin Harmel

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives.

Most of our portfolio is brut or extra brut, which means that it contains less than twelve grams per liter of residual sugar, or less than a half teaspoon per five-ounce glass.

I suppose, but that's not what I meant. I meant that in a way, I'm like Dorothée, aren't I? I'm on a great adventure, and one day, I'll find my way home.

you don't need money or weapons or a big platform to change the world. Sometimes, something as simple as a pen and a bit of imagination can alter the course of history.

But if there's one thing I've learned since the start of the war, it's as long as we believe, we take our faith with us. Whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.

Hope was a dangerous thief, stealing her todays for a tomorrow that would never come.

Please, don't apologize. These are the moments I live for. Reuniting a book with its rightful owner can be magical.

Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;

some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on.

You do not have to love everything about a place to carry it in your heart.

Love was a funny thing, Peter thought. You grow up thinking you will have some control over it—when you will fall in love, who you will fall in love with. But then life surprises you out of nowhere, and you fall in love when the world is falling apart.

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

Later that night, after Mamusia had gone to sleep, Tatus found Eva in the small library off the parlor, shelves piled high with all the books the two of them treasured so much. He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.

Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

one thing I've learned since the start of the war, it's that as long as we believe, we take our faith with us, whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.

It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else's prejudices.

Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

A nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

There's never enough time, not when a person has become a part of you.

I am a big believer that in life, things happen the way they are supposed to.

We all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

But considering the way so many records were lost or destroyed in the war, it shouldn't be difficult to plant a few pieux mensonges, white lies.

Please," she whispered. "Please stay in Switzerland with me. What if you lose your life, Rémy?" He turned away. "If I die for France, it won't be a life lost. It will be a country saved. My only regret will be that it will cost me the chance for a future with you.