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.
Jennifer DonnellyVoice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
Jennifer DonnellyCry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
Jennifer DonnellyHappiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
Jennifer DonnellyThe feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.
Jennifer Donnelly