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I just love historical fiction.

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
Fiction
Love
Historical

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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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He's wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it's December. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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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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Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
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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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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
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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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The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
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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 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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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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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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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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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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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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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
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