Top 250 Jennifer Donnelly Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

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2. “Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

3. “Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

4. “I’d wish you good luck, but you won’t need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing’s luckier than that.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

5. “He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

6. “Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

7. “I don’t like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It’s the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It’s bad news. The worst. It’s sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it’s only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

8. “Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

9. “Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

10. “Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

11. “Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...”

— Jennifer Donnelly

12. “For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

13. “Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

14. “Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

15. “Because nothing is more dangerous than hope.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

16. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

17. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

18. “Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

19. “Most people will fight when there is some hope of winning, no matter how slim. They are called brave. Onle a few will keep fighting when all hope is gone. They are called warriors.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

20. “We’re not punished for our sins, lad. We’re punished by them.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

21. “There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could’ve been and never was.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

22. “Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

23. “Good leaders know when to follow rules and when to break them.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

24. “I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I’m lost in the music. Until I am the music – notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it’s okay because when I’m the music, I’m not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

25. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

26. “Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”

— Jennifer Donnelly

27. “I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

28. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

29. “Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don’t hunt for the rope until morning. By then you’ll find a much better use for it.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

30. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

31. “Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I – I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone – I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

32. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

33. “Asking questions, demanding explanations – these things always led to trouble.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

34. “But an ugly girl? Ah, child, the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

35. “We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can’t put things right. Make us think there’s no hope. Make us give up.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

37. “Sometimes, Belle, our troubles are too deep for words,” Lumiere said. “It’s at times like those when we need our friends the most.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

38. “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

39. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

40. “The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it’s the wolf inside who will tear you apart.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

41. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

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

— Jennifer Donnelly

43. “Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

44. “We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

45. “Fac quod faciendum est,′ ” Jo read aloud. “Do what must be done.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

46. “They cut away pieces of me,” she whispered in the darkness. “But I handed them the knife.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

47. “The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can’t you see? I do not.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

48. “Every war is different, yet each battle is the same. The enemy is only a distraction. The thing you are fighting against, always, is yourself.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

49. “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.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

50. “Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”

— Jennifer Donnelly