Quotes from Jennifer Donnelly

There are those who believe that fear is an enemy, one that must be avoided at all costs. They run at its first stirrings. They seek shelter from the storm inside the house only to get crushed when the roof falls in. Fear is the most misunderstood of creatures. It only wants the best for you. It will help you if you let it. Isabelle understood this. She listened to her fear and let it guide her

Have you ever tried to stop her from doing something she wants to do?' Desiderio asked. Mahdi sighed. 'Yeah, actually, I have,' he said. 'No further explanation needed.

Beauty is not always pretty.

What an incredible metaphor for what fear does to us—it devours our hearts. Hollows us out. Leaves us empty.

She was fearsome. She was strong. She was beautiful.

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you

Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words

The truth can be a hard thing, Jo. It's often best left hidden.

I stood there in a trance, the bucket at my feet, listening as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

A powerful king has taken my heart, she thought. But a penniless boy has stolen it.

Nothing scares a weak man more than a strong woman.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it?" he said. "The one inside, I mean.

You'd live happily ever after. On nothing but love and pastries.

So. Are you going to tell me where we're going? Sure. Yeah? We're going to the most beautiful place in Paris, he says. Cool, I say. I love that place. He laughs and I decide to stop asking.

Turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn it's back on you.

To love, to truly love another—that is not for the faint of heart. Why, I've seen a husband mop the brow of his plague-ridden wife, heedless of his own safety. I've seen a murderer's mother weep at the gallows, and a starving boy give his last crust of bread to his sister. Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. Me…

Never is a wolf more dangerous than when he is in a cage.

Each queen was once a girl like you; told who to be and what to do. Not pretty, not pleasing, far too rough. Lacking, less than, not enough. Till wounded subjects, anguished dead, mattered more than things that others said. Then like a flag, her will unfold. Go now girl, remake the world!

Simple is the opposite of hard, easy is also the opposite of hard. But simple is not the same as easy. Not at all.

One cannot find that which never existed!

am the huntsman. Dead now, but that's no matter. The dead speak. With tongues blackened by time and regret. You can hear us if you listen.

The love of the sea folk is my strength. That was it. The answer she needed. It had been there all along. She heard Thalassa's voice now: A ruler's greatest power comes from her heart—from the love she bears her subjects, and the love they bear her. Vr?ja's: Nothing is more powerful than love. And Elena's: Love's the greatest magic of all.

Cowardice is like a plague; it spreads. One sick individual can infect an entire population.

Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.