Amy Harmon Quotes

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.

This is just me. Get used to it.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?

There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

People who are afraid of the truth never find it.

Love songs or poetry?Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.And you can't dance to poetry.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.

But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is.

With our hands, we reach for things we shouldn't have and we grasp what isn't ours. The way I have always reached for you.

Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.

She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose

The world is alive with words

He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

In the light everything is obvious. There are no secrets. You simply have to look in order to see.

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.

Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry, ” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.