Truth Quote by Jennifer Donnelly — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.”

“I think your vision gets better as you get older.”

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.”

“Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

“Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.”

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”

“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.”

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”

“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”