Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
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For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.
