Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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

  Jennifer Donnelly

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

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  Advantage, Found, Happens

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.145, 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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• 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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  Running, Hurt, Grief

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• She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

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  Insecure, Italian, Revolution

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• ...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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  Teenager, Unique, Thinking

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