Jennifer Donnelly Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Writing, Study, Quiet

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

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• On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

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  Daughter, Kings, Queens

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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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• My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.

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  Brother, Uncles, Father

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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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• Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

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  Hook, Crystals, Emotion

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

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• Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

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  Light, Bows, Greetings

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Wild Rose”, p.10, 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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• Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

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  Mother, Brother, Hey

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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.

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  Doors, People, Massacres

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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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• 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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• I think your vision gets better as you get older.

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  Thinking, Vision, Get Better

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

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  World, Be Careful, Shows

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

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  Liars

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Hurt, Rip, Heart

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

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  Memories, Winter, Night

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.

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  Real, Believe, Monsters

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But words are more powerful than anything.

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  Powerful

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Jewels, Gone, Toss

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.567, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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  Cutting

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.190, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

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  Character, Murmuring, Impatient

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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