Jodi Lynn Anderson citations

Page 2

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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