Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly (born August 16, 1963) is an American writer best known for the young adult historical novel A Northern Light.

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He had known the rarest of things—love, real love—he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Tea Rose

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Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—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, for the very 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 in A Northern Light

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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There is only one thing I fear now—love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

—Jennifer Donnelly in Revolution

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