Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Jennifer Donnelly

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. 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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Fac quod faciendum est,' Jo read aloud. Do what must be done.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Jennifer Donnelly

No sunrises that stop you dead with their unspeakable beuaty, either, he thought. No whales breaching only yards away from the ship, showering your awestruck self with a cold ocean rain. No songs and whiskey belowdecks at night while the wind plucks at the ship's rigging and the ice beats against her hull.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too.And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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?

~ Jennifer Donnelly

The truth costs.Lies cost more.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.But I do not.I do not.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

But words are more powerful than anything.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Jennifer Donnelly

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

I'm not crazy, I'm curious.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

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

~ Jennifer Donnelly