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Jennifer Donnelly is an American author known for her historical novels and young adult literature. Her works are renowned for their rich historical background and profound emotional descriptions, which have won her a wide following among readers.

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“There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places....It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it. It is the magic of the human heart.”

Heart Chance Courage Fate Magic Human Heart Transform

Book:Stepsister

Source: Stepsister

“He touched the tip of one leg to the place over Belle’s heart. “It’s here, foolish girl,” he said. “Home is all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love. You carry it wherever you go. Don’t you know that?”

Love Heart Home

Book:Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Show Belle who you are, master. Who you really are. Show her your heart.”

Love Heart

Book:Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“She questioned everything and was obedient to only one thing—her heart.”

Heart Curiosity True To Self

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“He had to hide his heart. It was the only way he could survive!”

Heart Survival Trauma Survive

Book:Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“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.”

Ifs Want Firsts Looks Heart Enough Might Saws Mines First Time

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.”

Thinking Knows Men Love Heart Made Done Hands Age Parent Laughing Stage Love You Cry Kings Grieving Gestures

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“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.”

Ifs Heart Strong Bones Heat Muscles Necks Guts

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

Heart Eye Names Heaven Interest Grief Silence Cry Tears Hair Devil Flesh God Love Indifference Shirts Suggestions Elbows Howl God Loves Us

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“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.”

Heart Doe Play Hands Hurt Forget My Heart Strings Nails Rip Fingertips

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.”

Heart Night Revolution Kings My Heart Mouths Daughter Mad Tongue Queens Egypt Hypocrite Me Alone Maids Sour Denmark Misanthrope

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“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.”

Heart Hands Sound Walks Heard Tears Kings Musician Beats Spring Hundred All Things Wave Bones Flesh Glances Handel

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Every heart is made of stories.”

Heart Made Stories

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.”

Writing Heart Body Pain Wish My Heart Rain Harder Bones Flesh Pounds Roof Sheets

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

About the Author

Born: August 16, 1963
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 196

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