Jennifer Donnelly citáty

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

“Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.”

“As I nodded and smiled and'd and'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?”

“Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

“There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.”

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”

“Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”

“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”

“She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.”

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

“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”

“Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

“Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.”

“Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot… It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”

“The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.”

“The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”

“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.”

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”