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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.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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Novelist
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Port Chester
New York
Jewel
Toss
Jewels
Ads
Gone
Funny
Away
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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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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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For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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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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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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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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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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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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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
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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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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
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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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He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.
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Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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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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Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
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