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141 " The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , The Vanishing Season
142 " 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. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Tiger Lily
143 " He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly.""It's nature," she said, thoughtfully."I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes. "
144 " Lily?”, she whispered. Lily didn’t move. “Can I tell you something?” Lilly 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. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Midnight at the Electric
145 " It took several minutes, but he was meticulous about each letter. IN MEMRY OF THE STRANJER, it said. HE LIVD AND DID. "
146 " The day felt almost like any other day of the summer, like they'd rewound and summer was still ahead of them. But this time, from the start, there would be no question of whether they had each other or not.This time, they would know. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Peaches (Peaches, #1)
147 " Nothing here is sacred. "
148 " It's strange, isn't it, how we can push people away because we want to be near them? Isn't that the silliest thing? "
149 " Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew. "
150 " Tiger Lily, you're a fool." he said, and kissed her forehead. And despite his size, and the fact that a boy like him was not built to shoulder much of anything, he shouldered her weight, and carried her home. "
151 " Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything - every little thing - different than it was before. "
152 " It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her. "
153 " Over the ten years since she'd been born, the trees of Briary Swamp, West Virginia, had peered through May's window night after night. They had watched over her thoughtful brown eyes, the imaginative crook of her head, the strong character of her knobby knees. The trees had laughed at the jokes May told her cat. Their leaves had whispered over her wild inventions, her colorful stories, her drawings. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , May Bird Among the Stars (May Bird, #2)
154 " I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders."Did your mother teach you?" he asked."I don't have a mother," she said. "Like you."For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it. "
155 " For the girls with messy hair and thirsy hearts. "
156 " Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them, strange exotic birds, one too fierce to be hemmed in as a girl, and the other too hesitant to be respected as a boy. "
157 " 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. "
158 " Wendy's heart beat for Peter immediately-there was no slow growing, no dark distrustfulness like Tiger Lily had had, no hesitation. Wendy didn't believe in situations she couldn't bend to fit her, so there was no need to be distrustful. She had the blissful confidence of someone who had never been put in a pot of turkey broth to die. "
159 " But I don't want to lose my guts answered Pumpkin "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird, #1)
160 " You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels. "