Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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• Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

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  Love, Romantic, Sea

  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.

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  Thinking, Keeping Promises, Break

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Mean, World, Revolution

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• For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

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  Strong Women, Mad, May

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, 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.

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  Kings, Nice, Greed

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

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  Bravery, Feelings

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Wild Rose”, p.235, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

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  Sin, Lad

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

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  House, Together, World

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

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  Endure, Yiddish, Jew

  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?

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  Years, Thought Provoking, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Feelings, Want, Firsts

  Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black

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• I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

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  Strength, Music, Time

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Hurt, Hate, News

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

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  Kings, Fall, Pieces

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.172, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

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  Hurt, Blue, Play

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

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  Pain, Eye, Light

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.192, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]

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  Pain, Stupid, Men

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.245, 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.

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  Running, Baby, Lonely

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Perseverance, Knowing, Quitting

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.483, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

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  Love, Dream, Wanted

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Voice, People, Feelings

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

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  Hot, Sin, Violent

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• Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

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  Inspirational, Shining, Vision

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

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  Book, Gun, Missing

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

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  Earth, Pastures

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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