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81 " 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 , Tiger Lily
82 " There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them together, this is the picture that is most stamped into my soul. It’s the two of them, jumbled up and broken apart into confused pieces, and not really understanding, themselves, what they were doing. "
83 " Earth," Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Midnight at the Electric
84 " She thought of all the things she’d forgotten to be scared of. "
85 " She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. "
86 " I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Peaches (Peaches, #1)
87 " West Virginia was mysterious and it liked to keep to itself. It hid in the folds of mountains, resting in the cool shade. It was sweet, beautiful, and bashful. Its woods held its secrets or at least it seemed that way to May. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird, #1)
88 " You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them. "
89 " 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. "
90 " 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. "
91 " 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. "
92 " 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. "
93 " 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. "
94 " Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you. "
95 " Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colors of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret. "
96 " Tiger Lily went back into the house, from which she kept watch of the ocean. She held her arms around her stomach and stayed awake. She didn't want him to catch her sleeping. Peter did not come that night, or the next day, and she stayed awake. She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible. For three days, she kept on studying the horizon, even speaking to it, as if a ship that had already disappeared could hear her. "Choose me." And Peter did choose. But he chose something else. "
97 " 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. "
98 " If you have reasons for not coming back, I don’t want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see? "
99 " Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was. "
100 " 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. "
