The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau Quotes

“What if it was just as simple as the fact that, sometimes, the people who are meant to be in your life don’t always arrive when you expect them to?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“It’s not about getting it right one hundred percent of the time. It’s about showing up and trying.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“But please always remember...that there is a difference between a life that honors the past and a life dictated by it. When you let your history shape your future, you relinquish the ability to choose a better way forward.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“When we find ourselves in darkness, we can't wait for the light to find us.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Is the past as you remember it if you’re the only one left with the memories?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“One should always help if one can,”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“When you let your history shape your future, you relinquish the ability to choose a better way forward.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“because to give people books was to give them the world in their hands.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Nazi party had brainwashed men just like Möckel who were neither intelligent nor charismatic. He was a lackluster nobody, and Hitler’s minions had whispered in his ear that his deficiencies weren’t his fault after all. If the Jews were to blame for everything, Möckel and men like him could believe themselves entitled to everything they’d ever wanted. They’d been made into puppets, as stupid men often were, and still they had no idea.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“caring for someone wasn’t about fitting them into spaces that you’d already cut out. It was about allowing them to exist in their own way.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“she”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“She glanced at the shelf closest to her and was surprised that the volumes weren’t about gems; they seemed to be his personal collection”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Change happens one act of courage at a time, one act of kindness at a time, one act of faith at a time. And those are things that all of us are capable of.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“the people who are meant to be in your life don’t always arrive when you expect them to?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Because when we find ourselves in darkness”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“she was the most self-centered person I’ve ever known.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Objects were just objects until they became the last things that remained of a person’s life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“If the Jews were to blame for everything”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“that of the more than seventy-six thousand Jews sent from across France to death camps during the war”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Eh, we’re all a little screwed up,” she said. “That’s what makes us interesting.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“It was remarkable that after so many years in another country, the curves of one’s mother tongue always remained.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“There is both exquisite joy and boundless heartache in being a mother,”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“It is in the times of greatest danger that we must summon our greatest courage.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Changing the world doesn't require influence or higher education. Most of the time, it doesn't even require big, old act of courage. It simply requires us to look inside our hearts, to ask how can help others, and to do what we can to stand up for which is right and just.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Objects were just objects until they became the last things that remained a person's life. The memory of your parents is alive in you, and in that way, they are still here. They always have been.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“A great swell of sadness washed over her. Hatred simmered in his eyes as he looked down at her, and she could see it then, the way the Nazi party had brainwashed men just like Möckel who were neither intelligent nor charismatic. He was a lackluster nobody, and Hitler’s minions had whispered in his ear that his deficiencies weren’t his fault after all. If the Jews were to blame for everything, Möckel and men like him could believe themselves”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“try to do good in the world, for in doing so, it might just be possible to turn back the darkness.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“What if it was just as simple as the fact that, sometimes, the people who are meant to be in your life don't always arrive when you expect them to?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“Objects were just objects until they became the last things that remained of a person's life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

“It leaves one with the question: Is the past as you remember it if you're the only one left with the memories?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau