184 Quotes by 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 little thing--different than it was before. I remember the me 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...

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

May wished more than anything that she could show them both how much she loved them. She felt very sorry. Her whole heart was sorry for everything she had ever done to worry them. She closed her eyes and tried to send her love all the way to Earth. She didn't know if it could travel that far.

I've been reading about moths," she said, to fill the silence. "What have you read?" Maggie shrugged. "They navigate by the light of the moon. They fling themselves into flames and electric lights because they think they're headed toward the moon's light.""I guess they die in ecstasy then," Liam said.

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

She thought of all the things she’d forgotten to be scared of.

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

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

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.