336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it?” he said. “The one inside, I mean.

It’s a wonderful thing to read about other people’s lives, but it’s important to live your own life too – no matter how challenging that life may sometimes be.

Ghosts are not the dead, come back from the grave to torment the living; ghosts are already here. They live inside us, keening in the ashes of our sorrows, mired in the thick, clutching mud of our regrets.

Sophie lowered her head into her hands, feeling as if she were made of the thinnest glass, so brittle and fragile that the softest tap could shatter her. She had escaped death only to come face-to-face with it once more.

Beautiful people don’t need coats. They’ve got their auras to keep them warm.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

The stomach is easily satisfied. It’s the hunger in our hearts that kills us.

You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you... instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it’s trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.