“Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insane. Hey, let's have a crepe.” — Jennifer Donnelly Brother Copy Share Image
“I lift my face to the night sky. It's still dark. But I can see the stars.” — Jennifer Donnelly Astronomy Copy Share Image
“For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.” — Jennifer Donnelly Death Copy Share Image
“Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing.” — Jennifer Donnelly Humans Copy Share Image
Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either — Jennifer Donnelly Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.” — Jennifer Donnelly Books Copy Share Image
“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 Break Promise Copy Share Image
“ Let no rough waters rend apart Two who have become one heart. For love's no love that can't withstand A rogue… — Jennifer Donnelly Love Copy Share Image
“It's a wonderful thing to read about other people's lives, but it's important to live your own life too - no matter… — Jennifer Donnelly Challenging life Copy Share Image
There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was. — Jennifer Donnelly Ghost Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“ As sure as the seabirds in flight, As sure as the endless deep blue, My love is as certain as sunrise.… — Jennifer Donnelly Love Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that… — Jennifer Donnelly Fear Copy Share Image
“Yves G. Bonnard, archivero jefe, alias el Poderoso Oz, alias el Gran Inquisidor, alias el Anticristo.” — Jennifer Donnelly Amor Copy Share Image
The feeling that you get… when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but… — Jennifer Donnelly Change Copy Share Image
“She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our… — Jennifer Donnelly Historical fiction Copy Share Image
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people… — Jennifer Donnelly Answers Copy Share Image
“I am. No doubt about it. I like humiliating Cooper. I like causing him pain. It feels good. It feels better than… — Jennifer Donnelly Cooper Copy Share Image
The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me.… — Jennifer Donnelly Body Copy Share Image
One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as… — Jennifer Donnelly Behinds Copy Share Image
He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking.… — Jennifer Donnelly Cascade Copy Share Image
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can… — Jennifer Donnelly Amazing Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly Cold Copy Share Image
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something… — Jennifer Donnelly Change Copy Share Image
“French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred… — Jennifer Donnelly Books Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss… — Jennifer Donnelly Deep thoughts Copy Share Image
“If I had coal and fire And metal fine and true I’d make an iron band An iron band for you I’d… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“India said, 'But Mrs. Moskowitz, it just won't work. I still have to find a proper salaried position. I have to cover… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In… — Jennifer Donnelly Baba Copy Share Image
“You learned good, Uncle Fifty," Lou said, shoveling beans onto her plate. "You get an A-plus. Will you teach Mattie how to… — Jennifer Donnelly Humor Copy Share Image
She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams. — Jennifer Donnelly Dream Copy Share Image
“One must always steer clear of men who sweat when it isn't warm.” — Jennifer Donnelly Sweat Copy Share Image
“Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.” — Jennifer Donnelly Auras Copy Share Image
