Quotes from Jennifer Donnelly

Decido que lo único que significa es que Virgil tiene mi iPod. Porque no hay nada más peligroso que la esperanza.

Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister

Es una pena que no entienda que la música vive. Eternamente. Que es más poderosa que la muerte. Más poderosa que el tiempo. Y que su fuerza te sostiene cuando ya no hay nada que pueda sostenerte.

Love was the same way. The higher the stakes, the more impossible the odds, the more eager she was to up the ante. It was the one thing the two sisters had in common.

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

He had to hide his heart. It was the only way he could survive!

Then he smiled and said, "A big, beautiful brand-new castle.

It's your move," said Love. "I'm quite aware of that," said Death. "Ticktock," said Love. "Only fools rush Death," said Death.

Home is all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love

As Love and Death watched, the queen offered the king a kiss. Surprised by so sweet a mercy, the king embraced the queen. A second later, he crumpled to the board, a dagger sticking out of his back. "And they say I'm ruthless!" Death exclaimed.

Los libros de historia dicen que los reyes, los duques o los generales son quienes empiezan las guerras. No te lo creas. Las empezamos nosotros, tú y yo. Cada vez que le damos la espalda a alguien, que guardamos silencio, que no nos metemos, que nos portamos bien.

The fox cannot change her nature and I cannot change mine.

Run home. Slam the door. Throw the bolt. It won't help. The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside that will tear you apart.

We've made our bed and we must lie in it.

In the end, at least, I got what I wanted - a stage to stand on, an audience to applaud. For all of Paris watches me now. They talk of nothing else. In the Assembly, in the coffeehouses, in the laundries and factories and market stalls, they talk of the fireworks. The broadsheets are full of my doings, every one. No player has ever managed that, not even the great Talma himself. But there is only one in the audience I care about now. Only one.

Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. Me , Belle. A woman who strolls through battlefields and sick houses. Who takes tea with executioners.

One day you'll go walking with the devil, my girl, she told me, and you won't come back at all.

All I'd need is a minute. Not major time. Not the kind of time it takes to compose a symphony. Build a palace. Fight a war. Just a few crappy seconds. The kind of time it takes to tie a shoe. Peel a banana. Blow your nose. But I haven't got it. And I never will.

Cada guerra es distinta, aunque todas las batallas son iguales. El enemigo no es más que una distracción. Porque siempre, siempre, luchas contra ti

Los lobos del bosque tienen dientes afilados y largas zarpas, pero es el lobo de tu interior el que acabara por destrozarte.

This word closure...it is a stupid word, ja? Bach did not believe in closure. Handel did not. Beethoven did not. Only Americans believe in closure because Americans are like little children- easily swindled. Bach believed in making music, ja?

I head out of the Castle van Epp, down to the Promenade. It's snowing. I take a seat high above the BQE, stare at Manhattan for a bit, and then I play. For hours. 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.

Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.

Do not wish for beauty, Alice. Wish for cleverness instead. Wish for a strong back and a strong will. They will do you more good than red lips and dimpels.