The Paris Daughter Quotes

“I’ve always believed that books are simply dreams on paper, taking us where we most need to go.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“As long as the stars are above us, I am out there thinking of you.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Under these stars, fate will guide you home.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“The mind plays tricks on us, and sometimes we recast the past in the way we need to see it in order to live with ourselves.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“There was a difference between honoring the past and being trapped by it.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Even if life transforms us, we are all who we are at our core, our whole lives through.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“It was the final droplet of water that had broken the dam.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“We can keep the children of others safe. You can do for other parents what someone is, right now, doing for you.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“A mother is a mother forever.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“The world was shifting beneath her feet, and she had the terrible feeling that soon there would be nowhere to stand.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“We all have some choice over the way our story ends, don't we, my love?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Grief, I think, coats the clay. But wood absorbs sadness and anger and loss.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“It was cathartic, becoming one with the art she was making, and she felt alive in a way she didn't in her daily life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“... she felt corseted by her marriage to him, choked by the lack of oxygen.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“I think,” he said slowly, “that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.” In that moment, she knew that”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“I think that love is always difficult, because it requires us to lose a bit of ourselves to gain so much more. But I believe that whatever we give up is worth it in the end, if we give those pieces to someone who loves us back just as fiercely.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“I've always believed that books are simply dreams on paper, taking us where we most need to go.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Under these stars,” she murmured, “fate will guide you home.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Good night, then. Sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE, OCTOBER 1940”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“I think,” he said slowly, “that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“the age of a book was of no importance; all that mattered was that stories could belong to each of us in individual ways.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“managing to pick ourselves up and put one foot in front of the other is always a victory—and that there is always light in the darkness, even if that spark is sometimes hard to see.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Such things can happen anywhere as long as good people look away. It is what happened in Germany. By the time anyone thought to stand up on any large scale, it was to late.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“The hope is that the children live. That they will survive and tell the world who they really are one day. In that, they will honor their families.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“If you give a person a book, you give him the world, And children deserve the world, don't you think.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“too.” She couldn’t believe she’d said the words aloud. How could she still be so angry with Lucie?”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“I’m a foreign-born Jewish widow, Madame LeClair. If I’m not on a list already, I will be soon—and then my children will be alone.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“This isn’t a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It’s about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter