“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love Copy Share Image
“It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Anger Copy Share Image
“Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything -… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Grief Copy Share Image
“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love 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 Fantasy Copy Share Image
“For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Kiss 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… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love fights Copy Share Image
“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Peter pan Copy Share Image
“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said. She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Boy Copy Share Image
“But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her… — Jodi Lynn Anderson May Copy Share Image
“I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Cold and lonely Copy Share Image
“except for Aunt Fire, who was never self-aware enough to feel awkward / but you're a girl, someday you'll want to be… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Children Copy Share Image
“I just wanted to see if... we were okay," she said, feeling relief. "Just to make sure we can be friends. I… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Getting older Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself," she offered . . . He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Right now Copy Share Image
“Lily?' she whispered. Lily didn't move. 'Can I tell you something?' Lily breathed deeply, clearly asleep. 'I think all my life my… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
