Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

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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.

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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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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

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

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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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The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

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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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Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

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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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Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

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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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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.

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

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He's wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it's December. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

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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,

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