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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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Port Chester
New York
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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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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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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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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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Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
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For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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Never take what's offered, always ask for more.
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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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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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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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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 think your vision gets better as you get older.
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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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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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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
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I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!
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Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
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