336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

That’s what we do with our pain,” she said, watching the butterfly rise. “We make it into something beautiful.” “We make it into something meaningful,” said the diva. “We make it matter,” whispered the actress.

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.

Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God’s will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts. p. 100-101.

You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.

Sometimes the things that make us all wrong is the thing that make us perfect.

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

Fairy tales give it to us straight. They tell us something profound and essential – that the woods are real, and dark, and full of wolves. That we will, at times, find ourselves hopelessly lost in them. But these tales also tell us that we are all that we need, that we have all we need – guts, smarts, and maybe a pocketful of breadcrumbs – to find our way home.

If you’re going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.

If you wait for someone else to make things better, you’ll be waiting a very long time.