The Book of Lost Names

by Kristin Harmel

She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.

“Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.”

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.

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

We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”