Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

I guess there are some things you never get used to.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.

I'm sorry no one saved you.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?