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181 " This is no place for anyone with a heart. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , The Vanishing Season
182 " may yescan you carry me asked pumpkinNo "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , May Bird Among the Stars (May Bird, #2)
183 " If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was that night, when he shivered and walked and told her he was warm, and told her he loved her so much. She was fierce, to be sure, but she had a girl’s heart, after all. As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it. I didn’t know why she seems so sad and happy at the same time. 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 , Tiger Lily
184 " Lily?' she whispered. Lily didn't move. 'Can I tell you something?' Lily breathed deeply, clearly asleep. 'I think all my life my heart's been broken,' Adri whispered, 'and I didn't even notice. And I don't even know by what.'It wasn't because of any one thing - not losing parents she didn't remember, not growing up in the group home - not the obvious things. It felt more like it had just come from being born, from time existing. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Midnight at the Electric
185 " By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet. "
186 " but men don’t want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men. "
187 " As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it. I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. 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. "
188 " With her mother, Leeda acted a lot. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Peaches (Peaches, #1)
189 " what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Love and Peaches (Peaches, #3)
190 " Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do "
191 " I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring. "
192 " I like to think that nothing’s final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don’t, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I’ll see you sometime again, even if it’s not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. "
193 " One morning at home, Tik Tok had Tiger Lily try on her wedding dress. He seemed disappointed that it fit so well. Despite their expectations, it became her. Its simplicity and sleekness were subtle enough to highlight her strong, high cheeks, the shine in her hair. It was a dress made by someone who knew her. It was her freedom and her silence sewn into a dress. She hated what it meant. But she loved the dress because it was from Tik Tok's hands and because it made her feel like herself. She took it off. "
194 " You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Loser/Queen
195 " I'm nothing to you, am I' Peter said once in a particularly intense arguement about where to find wild turnips. To these kinds of accusations, Tiger Lily would reply that he was trying to make her into his little chicken, and that she would never be anyone's 'little obedient chicken "
196 " Adri held her arms around herself, shivering."Do you think I can change?" she finally asked.Lily looked at her, curious and thoughtful. "Well," she replied, "are you dead? "
197 " Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most. "
198 " I think people everywhere are the same. Only these people are my bones. "
199 " You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another. "
200 " Manatees are real, mermaids aren't. Rhinoceroses exist and sea monsters don't. There are no more sea serpents guarding deadly whirlpools. There are pirates, yes, but there is nothing romantic about them. The rest is all stories, and stories have been put in their place. "