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Jennifer Donnelly Inspirational Quotes (58)

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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
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History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
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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.
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I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
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The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]
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For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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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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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 was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.
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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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I just love historical fiction.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.
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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.
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