Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling 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 you will never be the same again.

I am going through changes

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.

You never came out the way you came in.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

I've been no stranger to change.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Change is hard but inevitable.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late

Everybody is changing.

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.