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

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
Author
Novelist
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Port Chester
New York
Voice
Words
Comes
Feelings
Come
Throat
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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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Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.
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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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I just love historical fiction.
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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 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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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
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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 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 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 was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
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Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either
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Never take what's offered, always ask for more.
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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
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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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The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
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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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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
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