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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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• 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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  Sick, Feelings, Want

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.5, 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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• 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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  Blow, Night, Mad

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Book, Circles, Two

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.120, 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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• 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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  Hands, Pearls, Flawless

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

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  Hurt, Seconds, Not Alone

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• For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

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  Past, Thinking, Long

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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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• 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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  Hands, Want, Looks

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.86, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.

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  Love You, Taken, Years

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.246, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

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  Pain, Rain, Writing

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.202, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.

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  Kings, Spring, Heart

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.106, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

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  Sadness, Guitar, Want Something

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.34, 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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• 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.

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  Past, People, Rorschach

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

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  Memories, Tangled, Bird

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, 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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  Writing, Study, Quiet

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

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  Sorry, Care, Said

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

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• The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

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  Genius, Taste, Obscure

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

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  Heart, Looks, Want

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.114, 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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• Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

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  Voice, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

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  Light, Sight, Sometimes

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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