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“It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn’t stay stretched.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: The Secrets of Peaches

“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes about love

“Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn’t know how to. He thinks he’s a nice boy, that’s the worst part.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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

Source: Tiger Lily

“Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes about girls

“For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said.
She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes

“You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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 now that you don't like.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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

Source: Tiger Lily

“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they’re not what you hoped for them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“If you have reasons for not coming back, I don’t want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see?”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Variant: If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway
Source: Tiger Lily

“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

Source: Tiger Lily

“To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“From where I sat, Peter and Wendy were the two loneliest figures in the world. But Peter was somehow the lonelier of the two.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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 bones.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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

Source: Peaches

“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Peaches

“And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints there.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“The way I see it, ignoring things is important.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“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

Source: Tiger Lily

“What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Love and Peaches

“As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful".
Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“The bad things are some of my favorites," Peter said.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“When they made up, it was as if nothing had happened at all. In fact, it was like they were stuck even closer together, like they had gotten even more tangled in each other.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more than okay.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“I'm not myself.' '… You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

“Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Source: Tiger Lily

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