336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

But power is a treacherous thing; it’s bite is sweet, its kiss can sting and unless I’m much mistaken, it’s never given, always taken.

It’s a good thing you and your pills weren’t around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You’d have drugged “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Taking of Christ” right the hell out of them.

Yeah. Sure. My brother’s dead. My mother’s insame. Hey, let’s have a crepe.

Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out.

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited – in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend – he honoured it.

Isn’t that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

That’s not the question, Isabelle,” he said softly. “The question is, why do you believe them?

Don’t you see? A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She’s free to please herself.

Only fools rush Death,′ said Death.