"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

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Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

Jennifer Donnelly

#Voice Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,â€ he said, almost to himself. â€œThereâ€™s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,â€ Umar said. â€œThatâ€™s if they are going to execute them.â€ Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. â€œWell, thatâ€™s a big comfort.”
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”
“Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.”
“Don't waste your time on jealousy...”
“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”
“Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe thatâ€™s the way of the world.”
“Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.”
“I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.”

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