Quotes from Jodi Lynn Anderson

No one wants to disappear. Words made things real, and they last so much longer than we do. So, for the record, here are the things I want to be real. And I hope that words are enough to make them that way

For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him... the last time someone had seen them, they were living on a duck's back.

I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

We are just stardust after all.

Dear Miss Bird, The Lady of North Farm had asked us to send you this map to Briery Swamp Lake, just in case. She thought you might be having trouble finding it on your own, and she is expecting you to be prompt. We are very sorry for the danger you will endure, but we eagerly await your arrival should you survive it, as we are in great need of your help. The Lady joins me in sending you good luck and best wishes. Sincerely, Ms. H. Kari Kagaki T. E. A. Travel

And then a strong gust blew against her, and her feet slipped just slightly. She jerked forward against the railing, ever so softly. But, rotten, it crumbled like paper, and May and Kitty went sliding forward, right through it. May scrambled to stop herself, but it was too late. They slid a few more feet, then fell off the edge of the roof. They looked like blackbirds faliing out through the sky.

What you did was very brave," Aunt Sticky Feet said, her words clipped but not unkind, "but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men." "I don't care about that," Tiger Lily said quietly.

Maggie shook her head. "I'm not calm, I'm just...hesitant. It's like, I always think pretty soon my life will be this great story, as soon as it starts.

She tried to decide whether the silence was an empty one or a waiting one.

This is no place for anyone with a heart.

may yes can you carry me asked pumpkin No

One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend.

By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.

I think we carry home on our backs.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men.

As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it. I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.

She thought of all the things she'd forgotten to be scared of.

With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do

Adri held her arms around herself, shivering. "Do you think I can change?" she finally asked. Lily looked at her, curious and thoughtful. "Well," she replied, "are you dead?

I know I'll miss it forever, but I also know that I can't give into that. As much as I've always loved Canaan and loved you, I want my life to go forward even if it hurts. And I've decided I have to reach for what I want even if my hands are trembling from fear. I'm sorry, Ellis, but I'm not coming home.