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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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“Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.”

Knows Want Stills Sometimes Feelings Language Failing Trouble Cold Right Now Happenings Sick International English Language Dictionary Deep Down Trouble Making

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“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.”

Thinking Knows Break Promise Bad Things Keeping Promises

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“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.”

Knows Gone Ads Jewels Toss

Book:The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.”

Knows Felt One Thing

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“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.”

Knows Men Strong Weak Noise

Book:The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“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

“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.”

Knows World Shows Faces Night Memories Laughing Sky Arms Winter Careful Wide Loud Laughed Be Careful Make Me Laugh Winter Night

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.”

Thinking Knows Looks Running Turns Fall Like You Arms Sorry Confused You Think You Know

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

Knows Looks Light Eye Pain Remember Night Turns Stars Black Break Millions Darkness Rain Gold Madness Silver

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“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.]”

Knows Men World Today Pain Answers Laughing Stupid Goes On Tomorrow Brutal Dead Man Sobbing Shuddering I Know The Truth

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.”

Knows World Shows Careful Be Careful

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”

Knows Want Firsts Persons Feelings Happenings First Time

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

About the Author

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

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