I'm not myself," she offered, guiltily. She softened around TikTok, and when she did, she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

I 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

I 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

I think we carry home on our backs.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

I 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

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.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

It's shocking, isn't it, that a kiss could have led to something so big and violent and full of light as a human being? It makes me dizzy to think of all the things that start that way. Whole families, whole countries, whole worlds. Isn't it strange how a whole life can begin with a little spark?

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to See one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson