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Revolution

Revolution
Jennifer Donnelly

Revolution is a young adult historical fiction novel by Jennifer Donnelly about a girl named Andi Alpers who is struggling with drugs, thoughts of suicide, and the way her family has fallen apart after the death of her ten-year-old brother. When her father takes her with him to Paris on a business trip to ensure she works on her school thesis, Andi discovers a journal written by a girl her age, Alexandrine Paradis, two centuries earlier which has its own tragedies inside. Revolution was an Amazon Best Book of the Year and honored by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal; the audiobook version received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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

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

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Only the hopeless love God.”

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

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“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.”

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