Jennifer Donnelly Short Quotes

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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

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I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

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

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Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

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Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

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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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You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

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

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

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

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

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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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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

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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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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

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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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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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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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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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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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Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

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