336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

I want to have hope, I can’t help it, but I’m almost afraid to,” Serafina.

I’m safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.

There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now – white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don’t hunt for the rope until morning. By then you’ll find a much better use for it.

How it grieves me to think that the world always wins... but it goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.

Oh, dead man, you’re dead worng,” I tell him. “The world goes on stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can’t you see? I do not.

Never is a wolf more dangerous than when he is in a cage.

For the first time in a long time, he didn’t think of the past. And of all the things he’d lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

Her eyes drank in the colors of home – the soft gray of an arctic gull’s wing. The clear blue heart of an ice floe.