96 quotes found
Children's writer · American
American children's writer
“She guarded herself like a secret.”
“I think we carry home on our backs.”
“life's better with girls. boys need girls.”
“Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.”
“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...”
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
“I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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 evolution...”
“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.”
“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 be...”
“Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.”
“The universe gets more disorderly all the time.”
“So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.”
“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 ...”
“We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.”
“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 t...”
“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.”
“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.”
“And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.”
“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 passionatel...”