Quotes from Jodi Lynn Anderson

I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.

I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand.

But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

Faeries can be unfailingly loyal, even, apparently, to someone who doesn't seem to notice them. And I felt loyal to the girl with the crow feather in her hair.

I've made a discovery, and it's that grief isn't like sadness at all. Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you, it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything--every little thing--different than it was before. I remember the me before we got the telegram saying he was gone, but it's like I'm remembering someone else. It feels like an earthquake has gone through me...

Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

I think people everywhere are the same. Only these people are my bones.

I guess people are right when they say that time helps grief. I don't agree that it heals, but maybe it wraps our losses up deeper and deeper inside so we can get on with being alive.

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another.

But Lily pushed on. "Why do you think that is, that you love these people you don't know?" Adri shook her head. "I don't. I'm just curious." Lily shrugged. Offhandedly, as they were leaving the room, she said, "Maybe it's because you're invisible to them. Maybe that's why you let them in." She tapped on the wall on her way out, as if for good luck. "It's less scary that way.

Manatees are real, mermaids aren't. Rhinoceroses exist and sea monsters don't. There are no more sea serpents guarding deadly whirlpools. There are pirates, yes, but there is nothing romantic about them. The rest is all stories, and stories have been put in their place.

Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You're so still. It's like, you'll just hear it." He smiled wryly. "I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time," he said, his brow wrinkling. "My brain's noisy.

When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they'd thought it was or if in England it was different.

I've never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was that night, when he shivered and walked and told her he was warm, and told her he loves her so much.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her

The moment slipped away, but because it wasn't perfect, it was the most perfect one she could remember having

We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.