336 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

We never know who we are... until we’re tested.

If the countess was Death, then Death was a cheat.

I’ve always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn’t about perseverance. Sometimes it’s about knowing when to quit.

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he’s been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.

Good leaders know when to follow rules and when to break them.

I think we all make mistakes. What matters is that we don’t let our mistakes make us.

He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

I’m always doing things I can’t do. Otherwise, I’d never get to do them.