JDJennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly

Historical coordinate: c. 2002 AD · Approximate author-period evidence for Jennifer Donnelly: documented activity in 2002. Wikidata Q464963, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464963 (accessed 2026-10-08).

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 2002 AD

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.

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02c. 2002 AD

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

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03c. 2002 AD

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

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04c. 2002 AD

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

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05c. 2002 AD

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

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06c. 2002 AD

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

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07c. 2002 AD

But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.

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08c. 2002 AD

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

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09c. 2002 AD

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

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10c. 2002 AD

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.

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11c. 2002 AD

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

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12c. 2002 AD

I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.

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13c. 2002 AD

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

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