Amy Harmon famous quotes

03-28-2025

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldnâ€™t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
-- Amy Harmon

#Appreciation #Ferris Wheels #Anticipation
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks 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 have otherwise never existed.
-- Amy Harmon

#Rocks #Wind #Water
It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.
-- Amy Harmon

#Want #Way #Facts
This is just me. Get used to it.
-- Amy Harmon

#Used
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.
-- Amy Harmon

#Voice #Redemption #Rescue
If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?
-- Amy Harmon

#Laughing #Faces #Made
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
-- Amy Harmon

#Doors #Color #Different
But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.
-- Amy Harmon

#Beauty #Beautiful #You Are Beautiful
Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.
-- Amy Harmon

#Mean #Caring #Caring About Someone
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail
-- Amy Harmon

#Failing #Moments
I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.
-- Amy Harmon

#Thinking #Color #People
But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.
-- Amy Harmon

#Regret #Choices #Different
The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
-- Amy Harmon

#Real #Done #Daydreaming
Everybody is a main character to someone
-- Amy Harmon

#Character
I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise Iâ€™ll sing.
-- Amy Harmon

#Tired #Promise #Trying
Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising
-- Amy Harmon

#Beautiful #Faces #Advertising
There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.
-- Amy Harmon

#Loss #Heartache #Joy
There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing
-- Amy Harmon

#Believe #Understanding
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
-- Amy Harmon

#Book #Want
Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.
-- Amy Harmon

#Art #Watches #Willing
Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.
-- Amy Harmon

#Want #Sometimes
Why donâ€™t you focus on where youâ€™re going and less on where you came from?
-- Amy Harmon

#Focus
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.
-- Amy Harmon

#Stories #Literature #Periods

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