Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly

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

And besides, I couldnt stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.From what?Boredom.

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

Im safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.

With A Northern Light, Ive already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - its been so gratifying. Its amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

“Im wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That its stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

“Only fools rush Death, said Death”

“Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool hes been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.”

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

“The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.”

“Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.”

“You cant argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.”

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. Im not used to tender. Its a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldnt live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.”

“As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmmd and oh, myd 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?”