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 y…

- Jennifer Donnelly

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

- Jennifer Donnelly

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

- Jennifer Donnelly

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.

- Jennifer Donnelly

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

- Jennifer Donnelly

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

- Jennifer Donnelly

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

- Jennifer Donnelly

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

- Jennifer Donnelly

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

- Jennifer Donnelly