Jodi Lynn Anderson · 272 pages
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“Over the ten years since she'd been born, the trees of Briary Swamp, West Virginia, had peered through May's window night after night. They had watched over her thoughtful brown eyes, the imaginative crook of her head, the strong character of her knobby knees. The trees had laughed at the jokes May told her cat. Their leaves had whispered over her wild inventions, her colorful stories, her drawings.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right."
May swallowed and nodded, feeling very small.
The Lady kneaded her wrinkled hands. "What you are hiding from the most, my dear, is that you are none of those things you are so afraid of being - cowardly, weak, small. You aren't afraid to know you're afraid. And you're most afraid that you're stronger than you know.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“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 happen now as they turned around the bend.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
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― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“Don't forget about the stardust. Don't forget about the quartz rocks in the woods. You are small. But you are also so much more.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“We are just stardust after all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“She actually liked the idea that she might be made out of stars.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“Others wonder, if the Bogey isn’t wearing his pants, who is?”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Born place: in Annapolis, MD, The United States
Born date October 1, 2018
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“They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Little House in the Big Woods
“Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant.
Even when he beat the hell out of her. Every. Damn. Day.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Heir of Fire
“I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”
He eyed me appraisingly. “I hate to tell ye, Sassenach, but it’s not your arse ye’ve got hold of—it’s mine.”
“That’s all right,” I assured him. “We’re married. Share and share alike. One flesh; the priest said so.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Drums of Autumn
“... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from The Goose Girl
“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you got born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”
― Robert Penn Warren, quote from All the King's Men
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