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1. "It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her -- part happiness, part pride -- and she relished it." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
2. "She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
3. "I lift my face to the night sky. It's still dark. But I can see the stars." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
4. "One must always steer clear of men who sweat when it isn't warm." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
5. "Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
6. "Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
7. "When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
8. "What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
9. "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?" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
10. "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." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
11. "The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
12. "The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
13. "She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
14. "Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
15. "My father had put these things on the table.I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed.I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
16. "Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere," ~ Jennifer Donnelly
17. "Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
18. "The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness.Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
19. "Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
20. "She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
21. "It was a trick. It was this place, all the memories. His longing heart and the darkness conspiring. But his eyes told him it was no trick. He jumped down off the steps and walked toward her. Hoping. Fearing. He'd done this before. So many times. Caught sight of a slender black-haired woman and impulsively called to her, only to have her turn and gaze at him with eyes that were questioning, coldly polite, and never, ever hers." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
22. "As I turned to go, I nearly trod on the body of a young robin half hidden in the grass. Its wings were twisted and bent. Its body stiff and bloodied.'A hawk's work,' I thought, wondering if the robin had seen the brilliant blue of the sky and felt the sun on its back before its wings were broken." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
23. "Because nothing is more dangerous than hope" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
24. "Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
25. "French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own damn floor." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
26. "And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
27. "Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
28. "Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
29. "If I had coal and fireAnd metal fine and trueI'd make an iron band An iron band for you I'd pick up all the pieces From where they fell that dayFit them back togetherAnd take the pain awayBut I don't have the ironAnd I don't have the steel To wrap around your broken heartAnd teach it how to healSomewhere in the fire Somewhere in the pain I'd find the magic that I need To make you whole againI'd make the iron band so strongI'd make it gleam so bright I'd fix the things I've broken I'd turn my wrongs to right But I don't have the steel To wrap around your broken heart Wish I could make it heal Wish I could make it heal (Ch. 27)" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
30. "But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
31. "Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'-Emily Wilcox" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
32. "There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
33. "He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
34. "I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
35. "Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine..." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
36. "It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
37. "Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
38. "Every heart is made of stories." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
39. "It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
40. "You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
41. "Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
42. "He's wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it's December. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
43. "God loves us, but the devil takes an interest." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
44. "Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
45. "I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!" ~ Jennifer Donnelly
46. "Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
47. "It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
48. "Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
49. "I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
50. "On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king." ~ Jennifer Donnelly
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