...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenagerโand even when you're olderโlots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.
Jennifer DonnellyI love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.
Jennifer DonnellyThere is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
Jennifer DonnellyI need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.
Jennifer DonnellyThey sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.
Jennifer Donnelly