“And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“The moment slipped away, but because it wasn’t perfect, it was the most perfect one she could remember having” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I don't know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can't pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Peter treated her like she was the only thing in the forest. Sometimes he was so distracted by the things around… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Peter sighed into the water, and his breath sent a small circle of it into tiny ripples. "It seems cowardly, getting old.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Now there are days when she is content, and days when she’s restless. But there is never a day when she doesn’t… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“She felt the warmth of Peter's arm under her neck, and it almost felt like he was an extension of her, and like if… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his head. He… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Birdie, this is for adults to figure out.” Birdie planted her feet where she stood. “I am an adult.” Walter shook his head. “You… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“How can I describe Peter's face, the pieces of him that stick to my heart? Peter sometimes looked aloof and distant; sometimes his face… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we’re only what… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
