"Little by little, the old world crumbled, and……" — Jennifer Donnelly
"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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106 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly has 106 quotes on this site.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it…
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but…
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse…
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and…
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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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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away…
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of…
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing…
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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox
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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…
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She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She…
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More Crumbled Quotes
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.…
— William S. Burroughs
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry…
— William Jacob Holland
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his…
— John Aldridge
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In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before…
— Walter Benjamin
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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
— Swami Vivekananda
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And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their…
— Saddam Hussein
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and…
— John Donne
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The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.
— Paulo Coelho
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