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.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed unwatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

. . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasn't the same as giving them up. It wasn't the same as losing them.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

But TikTok 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