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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
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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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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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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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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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There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.
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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 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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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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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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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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I just love historical fiction.
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You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
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Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
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I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
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The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please
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Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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