336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

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.

May Delano looked up from her book. “What’s a wayward girl?” she asked. Jo groaned. “Never mind,” Trudy said. “Tell me,” May whined. “Very well,” Trudy replied, turning to look at May. “A girl who is with child but without a husband.” May laughed. “Shows what you know, Trudy Van Eyck. The stork brings babies after you’re married, not before.

His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He’ll find his heart again.

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.

Even the strong couldn’t be strong all the time.

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren’t exactly literary. So what? They’re fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

It’s good that you still cry,” Isabelle whispered to her. “It’s when you stop crying that you’re lost.

What an incredible metaphor for what fear does to us – it devours our hearts. Hollows us out. Leaves us empty.

Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.