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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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Page 124 — Jennifer Donnelly
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
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
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
"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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Page 257 — Jennifer Donnelly
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
-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
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
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
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
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