Kristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel was born on May 4, 1979, in Newton, and holds citizenship in the United States. She works in the English language and has built her professional life across two related fields: journalism and fiction writing.
Harmel received her education at the University of Florida. Her career encompasses work as both a journalist and a novelist, and her fiction falls within the romance genre. These two professional identities — reporter and novelist — have defined the shape of her working life, with each drawing on the written word as its primary medium.
The Library of Congress catalogs her under the authorized label "Harmel, Kristin," reflecting her place in the formal record of American authorship. As a novelist writing in the romance genre and a practicing journalist, she continues to work across both fields. Her presence in bibliographic records maintained by institutions such as the Library of Congress marks her established standing as a published American writer.
Quotes by Kristin Harmel
You can’t always change other people’s minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can’t you?
I used to think that memories were less painful when you held them close. I think perhaps that isn’t true though. Now I think pain loses its power when we share it.
He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.
I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.
It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.
Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.
Our greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in getting up each time we fail.
It occurs to me how mundane this moment would be if this was really the life I was living.
Love was a funny thing, Peter thought. You grow up thinking you will have some control over it – when you will fall in love, who you will fall in love with. But then life surprises you out of nowhere, and you fall in love when the world is falling apart.