Quotes from Kristin Harmel

Indeed. When it comes to books, the saucier, the better, don't you think?

But Geneviève was a new ally, too, and there was something to be said for finding people to trust in the dark.

Ben has never really known me. He knew the pieces I chose to give to him, the body that nursed him, the voice that scolded him, the hands that soothed him. But there is so much more to me, pieces that had nothing to do with my role as his mother, pieces I never let him see.

the thing is, parents make all sorts of errors, because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

I am not sure about anything. But if we don't have hope, we don't have anything.

No. You'll know it when I propose." He held her gaze for a long time before breaking a grin.

I would have been fine." "I couldn't take the chance." "Why not?" He hesitated. "Because as much as I hate to admit it, you're good at what you do. And we can't afford to lose someone who's good." " 'We'? " she repeated. He glanced around. "Père Clément. And others like him." "Forgers." "Shhhh," he said instantly.

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

Most people find themselves charmed by me eventually. Now come, are you trying to leave a trail behind us on the streets of Paris? Are we Hansel and Gretel?

Yes, but mine were never as good as yours." She could feel his smile against her cheek as she whispered into his ear. "I admit it now. So I am glad you are here with your documents." He paused and added, 'Well, actually, I am simply glad you are here.

Je reviendrai à toi. I will return to you.

My Eva. After all these years, I am still his, and he is still mine. "Épouse-moi. Je t'aime. That's what I wrote. I---I love you. Rémy. I always have." "I love you, too, Eva. And if the offer is still open, my answer is yes." And then he closes the final inches between us, and his lips are on mine, and I'm twenty-five again, my whole life ahead of me rather than behind, all the chapters still unwritten.

As soon as I close the door behind him, I reach for the phone and call the main number for Delta. Ten minutes later, I'm rebooked on the 3:11 flight today, leaving six hours earlier and arriving in Berlin at 10:50 tomorrow morning after a connection in New York. I didn't exactly lie to Ben, I reassure myself. I am changing my flight, just like I said.

They stopped in Épagny, Allonzier-la-Caille, Cruseilles, Copponex, Beaumont, Neydens, and Archamps before finally pulling into Collonges-sous-Salève, where the driver

I assume that what you meant to say was, "Thank you so very much, handsome Rémy, for coming to my rescue.

Oh, for goodness' sake, there's your rabbit-in-the-headlights look again." He rolled his eyes, "Now, be a sport and hold my hand, will you? Your solider friend is coming back.

I meant that in a way I'm like Dorothee, aren't I? I'm on a great adventure and one day I'll find my way home.

Where? Where did he go?" "East." Eva took a deep breath. "To a work camp called Auschwitz. In Poland." "But that's impossible. He was taken less than a week ago. And we live in France, Eva. This doesn't happen in France." "I'm afraid it does." Eva could see the crush of people penned up at Drancy each time she closed her eyes. "But we left Poland. We—we are French." "We are Jews.

Prayers are just words." "But they're words that remind us that there's something out there greater than ourselves. And they're words that lead us to be the best versions of ourselves.

I don't know much about these things. 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 maybe it shouldn't be. Perhaps they need only know whether you are kind, decent, capable, well-intentioned. It is within your own heart that you find God. And we all walk our own path toward him. Don't we?

You got the library wrong, Eva.

you can't rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.

lady should find a way to solve her problems without complaint.