152 Quotes by Amy Harmon

Before or After? Fern:Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always betterthan a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that oneslide.

I pulled you from the waterAnd kept you in my bed.A lost, forsaken daughterOf a past that isn’t dead.Somehow love from sweet obsessionBranched and broke a heart of stone.Distrust became confession,Solemn vows of blood and bone.But in the wind, I hear the strain,Pilgrim soul that time has found.It moans to whisk you back again.Bid me follow, sweetly drown.Don’t go near the water, love.Stay away from strand or sea.You cannot walk on water, love.The lough will take you far from me.

I missed him with an intensity that made his absence painful and his return a celebration. In the dark or the light, in the great hall or in our bedchamber, he was gruff but gentle, arrogant yet attentive, and he made love with a ferocity and focus that made it impossible not to bend myself to his will, even as I found ways to challenge and defy him.

What softened your heart?" I asked softly."Good music and a friend."I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power""So does friendship," he supplied frankly.

She had almost felt relieved when she was arrested. The thing she had dreaded, feared, run from had happened. When it came, she was strangely liberated from the fear. She couldn't dread what had already come to pass. She didn't have to anticipate the horror when the horror was right there. With her arrest came a certain calm, a quiet comfort. It had come. She had known it would and she could stop fighting.

Then lost, because alone feels permanent, and lost can be found

I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is.