336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither. Yet how can we help them if we don’t even know about them? And how can we know about them if no one writes about them? Is it so wrong to want to know things?

The thing is, you can’t ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

The day you stop dreaming you might as well take yourself down to the undertaker’s, for you’re as good as dead.

He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama’s diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.

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

You’d live happily ever after. On nothing but love and pastries.

One is not born knowing how to lead, one learns.

An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can’t live in someone else’s story. You have to live your own story.