Quotes by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasnt that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew Id miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesnt happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesnt seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but its all around me, and youre all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasnt yours and mine? It does to me. and Im sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldnt change it. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. Its nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people wont. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothings final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they dont, 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 Ill see you sometime again, even if its not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldnt be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.Always, Your PeterP.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

I think thats what you say when you cant have something you want, isnt it? You say you dont want it in the first place.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like youre 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.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

Books are the way to stretch out peoples souls, and I wont have children with small souls.

Leeda 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.

I 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.

Look, 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.Thats 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.

A 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.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

I think we carry home on our backs.

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.

It 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.

We dont know where Millie went, and we dont know if well see her again, but theres no reason not to hope. We dont know the answers, and maybe thats a nice thing.

lifes better with girls. boys need girls.

I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadnt 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.

But Tik Tok believes everythings circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.