Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
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.
Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
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.
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.
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.
Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox
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.
Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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.
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.
And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
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.
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?
Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
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.
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.
No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after.
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.
DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.
Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.
Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference.
You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.
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.
And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.
Fac quod faciendum est, ' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.
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.
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.
We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.
Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.
Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.
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.