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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I have done this - made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Only the hopeless love God. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The day you stop dreaming you might as well take yourself down to the undertaker's, for you're as good as dead. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Because I don't care anymore, Ms. Beezemeyer, I want to say. Not about Amade Malherbeau, my classes, college or much of anything. Because the gray world I've managed to live in for the past two years has started to turn black around the edges. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructable! It's time to start a revolution, baby -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It's kind of beautiful, this scary world. I still want to go out of it as soon as possible, but when I look around and stop thinking about how insane it all is and just see it without freaking out, it's really beautiful. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Love-real love- sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes."
The Beast looked at him skeptically. "How do you know that?"
"Because I'm in love with a woman who's a feather duster," said Lumiere. "That's how. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Go round cringing like a dog, Matt," he said, "and folks will treat you like one. Stand up like a man, and they'll treat you like a man." That was fine for Weaver, but I wondered sometimes, How exactly do you stand up like a man when you're a girl? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo ... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Tell Crabby Abby he's going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island, Astrid said, catching her ball. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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From the moment he held her, and looked into her eyes, he was a changed man. He'd held that tiny girl in his arms that moment; he would hold her in his heart forever. p. 20 Joe Bristow on being a father -- Jennifer Donnelly
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To have a purpose in life
what does that feel like? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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He was beyond damaged. He was broken. Smashed to bloody pieces. He was alone in the world without the one person who could make him whole. And he always would be. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the war. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 -- Jennifer Donnelly
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You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?
I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.'
Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Death wounds only is you let her. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I've been in contact with her. She approached me months ago. I know the terms of her deal. She's going to tell Ragnar that Ondalina's attack on Miromara was an act of war and that he must surrender. Either he accepts Lucia -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Volnero as the new ruler of Ondalina or Miromara obliterates our entire realm. I will advise Ragnar to accept her terms. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Seated atop the creature was a mermaid. She carried a crossbow. A sword hung from her hip. Her coppery hair, cut short, was angled over her forehead and cheekbones. Her green eyes blazed with fury.
'Go, Sera!' Becca shouted. 'Take back your throne! -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I want to have hope, I can't help it, but I'm almost afraid to, Serafina -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr! -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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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Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It's all right to lose yourself in one -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I did not want His cold love. I wanted human love - clasping, selfish, and hot. I wanted to smell the rank sweat of the men ... I wanted love - reeking, drunken, hungry love. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word."
"'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone," said Lumiere.
"'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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He had known the rarest of things -love, real love - he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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And a good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out.

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So, besides Ava being lost in a swamp full of homicidal maniacs, and Astrid swimming off to meet the king of homicidal maniacs, what other insurmountable problems are we facing tonight?
- Sera -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I look around myself wildly, my heart bursting with grief and fear and joy. I am leaving, but I will take this place and its stories with me wherever I go. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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History is fiction. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Life ends. But love? Love lives forever. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Difficulties are things that show people what they are.

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Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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He was a flame and she'd gotten burned, and the pain was terrible, yet it didn't make the fire any less alluring. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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My choice", he'd whispered, taking her hand. "Mine. Not theirs. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insane. Hey, let's have a crepe. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window.
He waits for me, too.
And I - I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone - I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I was agitated something fierce. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither. Yet how can we help them if we don't even know about them? And how can we know about them if no one writes about them? Is it so wrong to want to know things? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It's a special key.'
'How so?'
'It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox -- Jennifer Donnelly
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DNA tells you all the secrets of life,' he used to say. Except for one - how to live it. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Love is not for cowards. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators ... -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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But words are more powerful than anything. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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So. Are you going to tell me where we're going?
Sure.
Yeah?
We're going to the most beautiful place in Paris, he says.
Cool, I say. I love that place.
He laughs and I decide to stop asking. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I lift my face to the night sky.
It's still dark.
But I can see the stars. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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As a child, she'd thought all the noise and commotion was the most wild, wonderful game, but as she'd grown older, she understood why everyone rushed around so: they were chasing a story. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Because nothing is more dangerous than hope -- Jennifer Donnelly
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You are a ghost. Almost gone. Come back to us. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It's all about the pain, isn't it? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you have to go around saying them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere, -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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I'M SO GLAD you're not dumb, Yaz," Neela said. Yazeed shot her a sidelong glace. "I thought you were going to say dead." "That, too. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Nevermore is more than an illusion child. It is very real.

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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 Donnelly
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The truth is usually inappropriate. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I'm not snapping," I snapped. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The truth can be a hard thing, Jo. It's often best left hidden. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Asking questions, demanding explanations - these things always led to trouble -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Yet I had such joy from the words. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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on a boat, the better. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked.
"A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. p. 368 -- Jennifer Donnelly
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But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died."
"From what?"
"Boredom. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Belle saw now that his gruff, sometimes-frightening exterior masked a kind and loyal heart. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Have you ever tried to stop her from doing something she wants to do?' Desiderio asked.
Mahdi sighed. 'Yeah, actually, I have,' he said. 'No further explanation needed. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Only the Hopeless love God.
Because God may love us, but the devil takes an interest. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Fran? Frances Hill, you stop that right now! What the devil's got into you? Ada, you should be ashamed! Braying like a mule, you are! And you, Mattie Gokey ... would you like to tell me what could possibly be so funny? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Every heart is made of stories. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something - they shamed her. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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A heart is made of proteins built by amino acids, animated by electrical impulses. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Sadness enfolded her like a long black cape. p. 4 -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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 Donnelly
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Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Her eyes drank in the colors of home - the soft gray of an arctic gull's wing. The clear blue heart of an ice floe. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine ... -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Tell him what? a voice inside her asked. Tell him you've fallen for a penniless reporter whom you barely know? That's a brilliant idea, Jo. As soon as you've told Bram, you can tell your mother. I'm sure she'll be delighted. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Stop yelling. If everyone's yelling, no one can be heard. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I'm not crazy; I'm curious. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow ... And not fireworks, either -- Jennifer Donnelly
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It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her
part happiness, part pride
and she relished it. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The truth costs.
Lies cost more. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I just love historical fiction. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Lots of things are impossible," she said softly. "Until they're not. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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One must always steer clear of men who sweat when it isn't warm. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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We woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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His arms around her felt like nothing she'd ever known and everything she'd ever wanted. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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We never know who we are... until we're tested -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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People drink more when they're sad. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be? -- Jennifer Donnelly
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Never take what's offered, always ask for more. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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I think your vision gets better as you get older. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned. -- Jennifer Donnelly
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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. -- Jennifer Donnelly