152 Quotes by Amy Harmon

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.

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

He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.

Life is hard. What an understatement. Hard is too mild for the trouble we've seen. Life is hell shot with just enough heaven to make the pains of hope all the sharper. Life is impossible. Ugly. Agonizing. Inexplicable. Torture.

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.

Silence, daughter. Stay alive.

How can you compromise with people who don't want you to exist? They want us to disappear. I can't adapt to death.

And what have you learned?” “A great deal. But I haven't learned the most important thing.” “No? And what would that be?” “Why do people hate us so much?

Someone once told me that when people leave Ireland, they never go back. I couldn't bear the thought of never going back. So I stayed.