Cosette.s

“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Winter Rose

“Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Winter Rose

“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Tea Rose

“She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose