Jennifer Donnelly Quotes: 13

• I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.

  Revolution

• 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.

  Revolution

• Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

  Revolution

• What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

  A Northern Light

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

  Revolution

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

  A Northern Light

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

  A Northern Light

• 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 will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.

  A Northern Light

• There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.Be careful what you show the world.You never know when the wolf is watching.

  Revolution

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

  Revolution

• As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'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?

  A Northern Light

• Only the hopeless love God.

  Revolution

• The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

  Revolution