I'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 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

I 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

Leeds 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

Life's better with girls. Boys need girls.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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." 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

One by one they disappeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of him was his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers, reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said. She thought of TikTok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

P.S. Please give my love to Link, she was always such a funny little bug

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

— Jodi Lynn Anderson