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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About 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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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

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild 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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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

—Edgard Varese

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

—Paul Valéry

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

—Willa Cather

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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

—William Saroyan

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