Jennifer Donnelly Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins. Revolution

2. 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

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

4. He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. The Winter Rose

5. I think your vision gets better as you get older. A Northern Light

6. The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. Revolution

7. 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

8. 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 he's 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. A Northern Light

9. Believe that you can make your way. Or don't. Either way, you are right. Stepsister

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

11. 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

12. Oh, my. Oh, dear," he said. "Is this also love? This terrible pain?"Belle nodded."Love is hard. I had no idea how hard. Is it worth the pain?""Yes," Belle said. "It is. Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

13. Stop burdening the gods. Stop cursing the devil. They will make no path for you. They gave you their dark gifts: reason and will. Now you must make your own way. Stepsister

14. The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. Revolution

15. There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places. By a hearth at night, as a girl leaves a bit of cheese for a hungry mouse. In a slaughter yard, as the old and infirm, the weak and discarded, are made to matter more than money. In a poor carpenter's small attic room, where three sisters learned that the price of forgiveness is forgiving. And now, on a battlefield, as a mere girl tries to turn the red tide of war. It is the magic of a frail and fallible creature, one capable of both unspeakable cruelty and immense kindness. It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it. It is the magic of the human heart. Stepsister