amy harmon Quotes

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.

- Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses

Fern: How would you know? Have you ever been nobody? Ambrose: Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.

- Amy Harmon, Making Faces

People who are afraid of the truth never find it.

- Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses

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?

- Amy Harmon, Making Faces

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

- Amy Harmon, Making Faces

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.

- Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

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.

- Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

- Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

True beauty, the kind that doesn’t fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that break up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would otherwise never exist.And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we cant see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies cant contain it.

- Amy Harmon, Making Faces

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

- Amy Harmon, A Different Blue

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.