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Jennifer Donnelly is an American writer best known for the young adult historical novel A Northern Light.

A Northern Light was published as A Gathering Light in the U.K. There, it won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later, it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favorite. Similarly, it was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time in 2015. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. August 1963  •  Other names ג'ניפר דונלי
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Works

Revolution
Revolution
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A Northern Light
A Northern Light
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The Tea Rose
The Tea Rose
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Revolution
Revolution
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A Northern Light
A Northern Light
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The Tea Rose
The Tea Rose
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Jennifer Donnelly: 59 quotes5 likes

Famous Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

“Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“As I nodded and smiled and'd and'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: Deep Blue

“I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Jennifer Donnelly Quotes about love

“For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“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.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Only the hopeless love God.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Jennifer Donnelly Quotes about the world

“The rain comes down harder, darkness falls. We don't care. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

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

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Variant: It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not. do not.
Source: Revolution

Jennifer Donnelly: Trending quotes

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”

Jennifer Donnelly book The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

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

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot… It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“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.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: The Winter Rose

“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.”

Jennifer Donnelly book The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I said. To myself.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something—they shamed her.”

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: These Shallow Graves

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

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: These Shallow Graves

“Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere”

Jennifer Donnelly book The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: The Winter Rose

“Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch?”

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: These Shallow Graves

“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.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

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

Jennifer Donnelly

Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

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