Quotes from Kristin Harmel

Still, hope was a dangerous thing. It grew like a field of wildflowers within Eva, blossoming in all the spaces that had been filled with darkness and despair, until she began to believe with all her heart in the possibility that Rémy might have lived through the war after all.

But when you grow comfortable hiding within a protective shell, it's harder than one might expect to stand up and say, "Actually, folks, this is who I am.

They are erasing us, and we are helping them. "Because someone should remember. How else will they find their way home?

stay." "Remember that God's plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.

You're someone who finds herself in the pages,

Someone who sees her reflection in the words.

Do you know what else this very wise person told me?" he asks. "She said that we're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. And I believe, Mrs. Abrams, that you chose to be a hero, even if you don't see it that way." He

Because books bring us to another time and place," the

Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die.' This is our country, my dear, and I will fight for its honor to the end.

Do you think God speaks Arabic or Hebrew? Can he hear your prayers or mine?"... "I do not know." "What do you think, Nabi?" The boy thought about this for a long time before replying. "I think God must speak all the languages." His tone was confident. "I think he can heal all of us.

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. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

We are not so different then."... "I never understood the war between our religions, or the war with Christianity. 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 divides us.

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

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

You're not Jewish." "No, I'm Catholic. And in the end, Catholicism isn't really so different. Believing in God is at the core of our faith, just like yours,

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

Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?

recommend Ann Mah's The Lost Vintage,

Vy moshennitsa?

Vy priexali suda so svoyey docher'yu?

Some chapters must be finished, though, some books closed.

Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?

child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.