336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

It’s not pride I’m feeling. It’s another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent, and hot. This one sits inside you quietly and eats you from the inside out like the trichina worms the pigs get. It’s the Eighth Deadly Sin. The one God left out. Hope.

Break a promise to the dead and they’ll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they’ll haunt you just the same.

Difficulties are things that show people what they are.

The worst day above ground is better than any day under it.

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

But all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Home’s all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love. You carry it wherever you go.

I love you, too... I won’t ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.

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