“ You love me," she said. "That's enough. We love each other.""Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story. Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all. 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
“ Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful. Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happ… 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 wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as lo… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken. Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ I'm not myself," she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, 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… 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
“ 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 littl… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ She 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 a… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ But 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
“ I 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 k… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ 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 bon… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ 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. 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
“ Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than so… Jodi Lynn Anderson
