DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
Jennifer DonnellyHer 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 DonnellyMeet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
Jennifer DonnellyTag: jennifer-donnelly the-tea-rose the-winter-rose
Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
Jennifer DonnellyThey leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.
Jennifer DonnellyAs 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.
It's a special key.'
'How so?'
'It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad.
He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
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The rain comes down harder, darkness falls. We don't care. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.
Jennifer DonnellyHe loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them.
they look like stars breaking.
Or, They look like Mama's diamonds.
Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.
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