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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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Famous Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

“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

“...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Stills Feelings Might Values Voice Attention Unique Observation Teenager Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“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

“Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.”

Thinking Seems Used Vision Forever Failing Stupid Mines Blind Folks Complaining Get Better Eyesight

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

“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 need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”

Thinking Needs Littles Bigs My Own Boys Big Heads

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.”

Thinking Firsts Long Past Lost Loses Long Time First Time

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“I think your vision gets better as you get older.”

Thinking Vision Get Better

Book:A Gathering Light

Source: A Gathering Light

About the Author

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

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