Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild 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

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

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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Ideally, one should have a great deal of courage and strength, but not boast or make a big show of it. Then, in times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right.

—14th Dalai Lama

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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

—Clarence Darrow

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If you can't be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

—Lisa Scottoline in Killer Smile

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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