"The 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."

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Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black

Jennifer Donnelly

#Feelings Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.”
“All of science is largely formalized common sense.”
“Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.”
“It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.”
“I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”
“Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.”

Source : Interview with Mauro Javier Cardenas, quarterlyconversation.com. July, 2008.
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”

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