01UndatedShe did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
02UndatedI think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
03UndatedI think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
04UndatedI wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
05UndatedAnd age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
06UndatedBooks are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
07UndatedLeeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
08UndatedI could never leave,' Pine Sap said. 'Why?' she asked.Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
09UndatedLook," Peter said.To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking like specks at first, was a herd of horses, a species that in Neverland had never been tamed. They were beautiful, flashes of brown and black and tan, their coats gleaming. There was no reason for them to be running that Tiger Lily could see. It was likely that they just loved to run."That's what I want my life to be," Peter said, staring down at the horses.Tiger Lily sank against him and watched the herd, and thought that was what she wanted too.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
10UndatedA faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime...I tried to talk sense into my hard little heart. But it had landed on Peter, a creature two hundred times my size and barely aware of me, and there was no prying it loose.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
11UndatedBecause I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
14UndatedSo 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.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
15UndatedIt never occurred to me before, but there could have easily been a world with no buses, no horns honking, no red lights, no shopping carts, no gum stick to the bottom of benches downtown. For that matter I guess there also could have been no sun, no trees, and no ocean. None of those things had to exist, I guess. It makes me feel lucky that they do.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
16UndatedWe 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.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
18UndatedI began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and to keep up-she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
19UndatedBut Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
20UndatedShe hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about the exact color of the sky and which path they should take on a hunt. They disagreed passionately about whose fish was the best tasting. They could work up extreme hatred for each other at a moment's notice.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
21UndatedI'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...Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
23UndatedI think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like...you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.Jodi Lynn Anderson / quote ↗
