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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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Port Chester
New York
Love
Historical
Fiction

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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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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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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
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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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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
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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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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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History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
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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 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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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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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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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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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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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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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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Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.
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It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.
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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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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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