Jennifer Donnelly Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.767, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“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 DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“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 DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.”
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“...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.”
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“But words are more powerful than anything.”
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“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”
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“The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.”
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“I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”
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“I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.”
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“The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black
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“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”
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“There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.554, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.”
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“What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.”
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“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.”
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“Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.”
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“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“I think your vision gets better as you get older.”
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“I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.”
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.483, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.”
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“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
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“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.”
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“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
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