“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”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
“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”Jodi Lynn Anderson Source: Peaches
“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
“Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice.”Jodi Lynn Anderson Source: Tiger Lily