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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. — Jennifer Donnelly

If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time — Jennifer Donnelly

Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out.

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No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after. — Jennifer Donnelly

It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her
part happiness, part pride
and she relished it. — Jennifer Donnelly

Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me. — Jennifer Donnelly

I'm not crazy; I'm curious. — Jennifer Donnelly

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was. — Jennifer Donnelly

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. — Jennifer Donnelly

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. — Jennifer Donnelly

Lots of things are impossible," she said softly. "Until they're not. — Jennifer Donnelly

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. — Jennifer Donnelly

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own. — Jennifer Donnelly

If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead. — Jennifer Donnelly

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger. — Jennifer Donnelly

Every heart is made of stories. — Jennifer Donnelly

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. — Jennifer Donnelly

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be. — Jennifer Donnelly

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be. — Jennifer Donnelly

Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be. — Jennifer Donnelly

Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words — Jennifer Donnelly

The truth costs.
Lies cost more. — Jennifer Donnelly

Death wounds only is you let her. — Jennifer Donnelly

Yet I had such joy from the words. — Jennifer Donnelly

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. — Jennifer Donnelly

One must always steer clear of men who sweat when it isn't warm. — Jennifer Donnelly

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. — Jennifer Donnelly

I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park. — Jennifer Donnelly

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever? — Jennifer Donnelly

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died."
"From what?"
"Boredom. — Jennifer Donnelly

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. — Jennifer Donnelly

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent. — Jennifer Donnelly

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady. — Jennifer Donnelly

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. — Jennifer Donnelly

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy. — Jennifer Donnelly

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them. — Jennifer Donnelly

Difficulties are things that show people what they are.

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It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever. — Jennifer Donnelly

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. — Jennifer Donnelly

Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go. — Jennifer Donnelly

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox — Jennifer Donnelly

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. — Jennifer Donnelly

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why. — Jennifer Donnelly

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. — Jennifer Donnelly

Because nothing is more dangerous than hope — Jennifer Donnelly

Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. p. 368 — Jennifer Donnelly

Tell Crabby Abby he's going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island, Astrid said, catching her ball. — Jennifer Donnelly

It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot ... It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope. — Jennifer Donnelly

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. — Jennifer Donnelly

To have a purpose in life
what does that feel like? — Jennifer Donnelly

That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something - they shamed her. — Jennifer Donnelly

Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters. — Jennifer Donnelly

Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul. — Jennifer Donnelly

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small. — Jennifer Donnelly

A heart is made of proteins built by amino acids, animated by electrical impulses. — Jennifer Donnelly

Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want. — Jennifer Donnelly

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. — Jennifer Donnelly

Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructable! It's time to start a revolution, baby — Jennifer Donnelly

She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't. — Jennifer Donnelly

I just love historical fiction. — Jennifer Donnelly

He was a flame and she'd gotten burned, and the pain was terrible, yet it didn't make the fire any less alluring. — Jennifer Donnelly

My choice", he'd whispered, taking her hand. "Mine. Not theirs. — Jennifer Donnelly

Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers. — Jennifer Donnelly

Only the hopeless love God. — Jennifer Donnelly

Sadness enfolded her like a long black cape. p. 4 — Jennifer Donnelly

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators ... — Jennifer Donnelly

And a good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the — Jennifer Donnelly

Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones. — Jennifer Donnelly

If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be? — Jennifer Donnelly

Never take what's offered, always ask for more. — Jennifer Donnelly

You are a ghost. Almost gone. Come back to us. — Jennifer Donnelly

People drink more when they're sad. — Jennifer Donnelly

Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan. — Jennifer Donnelly

Her eyes drank in the colors of home - the soft gray of an arctic gull's wing. The clear blue heart of an ice floe. — Jennifer Donnelly

Volnero as the new ruler of Ondalina or Miromara obliterates our entire realm. I will advise Ragnar to accept her terms. — Jennifer Donnelly

The truth can be a hard thing, Jo. It's often best left hidden. — Jennifer Donnelly

I think your vision gets better as you get older. — Jennifer Donnelly

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all. — Jennifer Donnelly

God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself. — Jennifer Donnelly

Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned. — Jennifer Donnelly

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you — Jennifer Donnelly

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine. — Jennifer Donnelly

Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same. — Jennifer Donnelly

I struggled for a long time to get anything published. — Jennifer Donnelly

Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry. — Jennifer Donnelly

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,' he used to say. Except for one - how to live it. — Jennifer Donnelly

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway. — Jennifer Donnelly

Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries. — Jennifer Donnelly

Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It's all right to lose yourself in one — Jennifer Donnelly

I lift my face to the night sky.
It's still dark.
But I can see the stars. — Jennifer Donnelly

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous. — Jennifer Donnelly

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. — Jennifer Donnelly

Only the Hopeless love God.
Because God may love us, but the devil takes an interest. — Jennifer Donnelly

Stop yelling. If everyone's yelling, no one can be heard. — Jennifer Donnelly

I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents. — Jennifer Donnelly

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words. — Jennifer Donnelly

I was agitated something fierce. — Jennifer Donnelly

Life ends. But love? Love lives forever. — Jennifer Donnelly

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? — Jennifer Donnelly

His arms around her felt like nothing she'd ever known and everything she'd ever wanted. — Jennifer Donnelly