Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

Quotes

• “What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In pile...”
• “You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord ...”
• “As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine tha...”
• “I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and pla...”
• “A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.”