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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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Port Chester
New York
Measure
Dreams
Dream
Wanted
Everything
Love
Life

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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
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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'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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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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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 greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
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Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
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For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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I just love historical fiction.
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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 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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I think your vision gets better as you get older.
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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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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 struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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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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I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
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