“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
“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
“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
“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
“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”Jodi Lynn Anderson Source: Tiger Lily