“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
“Others wonder, if the Bogey isn’t wearing his pants, who is?” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Funny Copy Share Image
“Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Forget Copy Share Image
“I wonder if sometimes you can miss something so much it breaks you, and still be happy you left.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Breaks Copy Share Image
“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Said Copy Share Image
“You look like a crazy person," Adri said. "You look boring and average," Lily replied.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Crazy people 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 Direction Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself.' '...You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Like Copy Share Image
“But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Belief 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Mattered 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 Shipwreck 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
“You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Death Copy Share Image
Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love Copy Share Image
“Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Lily Copy Share Image
“I could never leave,' Pine Sap said. 'Why?' she asked. Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Family 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 Birdie Copy Share Image
“An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep up with him, she could hold… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love Copy Share Image
“Like every year, the peach flowers began to blossom, draping the orchard like a filmy pink dress. Thousands of tiny pink petals… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Blossoms 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 Lily Copy Share Image
“There was no twinkle in his eyes. "Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tiger Lily blinked at him,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Love Copy Share Image
“He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Nature Copy Share Image
“As you may have guessed already, Peter had a soul that was always telling itself lies. When he was frightened, his soul… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Soul Telling 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 Lily Copy Share Image
“Dear Miss Bird, The Lady of North Farm had asked us to send you this map to Briery Swamp Lake, just in… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Best wishes Copy Share Image
“Later, Wendy would tell people on the ship that they had battled pirates. But she would never say that Tiger Lily had… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Asking a question Copy Share Image
“You may think my jealousy would have been enormous during those days after Peter gave Tiger Lily the smallest kiss on the… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Infatuation Copy Share Image
“She stands on the cliffs, near the old crumbling stone house. There's nothing left in the house but an upturned table, a… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Eighty 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Boy Copy Share Image
“Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Different ways Copy Share Image
“Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Peter 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,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Friend 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 First time Copy Share Image
“For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him... the last time someone had seen them, they… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Last time Copy Share Image
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Impossible Copy Share Image
“If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Reasons 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… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Elastic Copy Share Image
