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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.

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  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

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  Beautiful, Snow, Rose

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

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  Book, Hero, Cheerful

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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.

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  Forever, Gone, Body

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.469, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

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  Mom, Fall, Men

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• Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

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  Country, Airports, Should

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

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  Dna, Secret, Used

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.330, Bloomsbury Publishing

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