Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
9 quotes
"I think your vision gets better as you get older."
"Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up."
"You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word."
"You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?" I said. To myself."
"I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out."
"But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read."
"You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?"
"But words are more powerful than anything."
"Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words."