“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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