Quotes from Jennifer Donnelly

I'm so glad you're not dumb, Yaz," Neela said. Yazeed shot her a sidelong glace. "I thought you were going to say dead." "That, too.

The truth is usually inappropriate.

If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time

I'm not crazy; I'm curious.

Fac quod faciendum est,' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

It's all about the pain, isn't it?

Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me.

I lift my face to the night sky. It's still dark. But I can see the stars.

I did not want His cold love. I wanted human love—clasping, selfish, and hot. I wanted to smell the rank sweat of the men… I wanted love—reeking, drunken, hungry love.

It's not pride I'm feeling. It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent, and hot. This one sits inside you quietly and eats you from the inside out like the trichina worms the pigs get. It's the Eighth Deadly Sin. The one God left out. Hope.

Your always look for the worst in people," said Love reproachfully. "And I always find it," Death said.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,' he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Kindness is many things," he said. "It is gentle. Tender. Tolerant. It is born of patience and faith. And sometimes, yes, it's dangerous. Helping a wounded animal that's likely to lash out, standing up for someone who's being taunted by bullies... these things are all dangerous. But to try to understand another creature, to put ourselves in their place, to help them - even when it costs us - that shows strength, Sophie, not weakness.

How it grieves me to think that the world always wins... but it goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.

Most people will fight when there is some hope of winning, no matter how slim. They are called brave. Only a few will keep fighting when all hope is gone. They are called warriors.

A heart is made of proteins built by amino acids, animated by electrical impulses.

Sometimes it's easier to say that you hate what you can't have rather than admit how badly you want it.

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

He had known the rarest of things -love, real love - he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests

People drink more when they're sad.

It's a special key.' 'How so?' 'It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad.

It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her -- part happiness, part pride -- and she relished it.

By changing a life, just one life, you -can- change the world. It is the only way anyone ever has. [Anna of Cleves]