Jennifer Donnelly: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”