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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