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161 " Here is where I become more than an observer and enter the story in my own right. "
― Jodi Lynn Anderson , Tiger Lily
162 " No one seemed to notice that Pine Sap had taken his life into his hands by holding hers. "
163 " I think people are the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones. "
164 " Nothing had changed about her except that she was wearing two feathers in her hair instead of one. "
165 " It’s good in some ways, not to have a language. It makes you see things. You turn your attention, not to babbling about yourself, broadcasting each and every thought to everyone within earshot-as people do- but to observing. "
166 " Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones. "
167 " 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. I "
168 " I didn't do it to look nice,” she said.“But you do care.”Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "
169 " You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," she said."But you do care."Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "I don't," she said. "
170 " Slightly said I was having “lady’s hysterics”. One of the twins mentioned something he’d heard about women going crazy twelve times a year. "
171 " Tiger Lily, you know Moon Eye isn’t for me.” “She is,” Tiger Lily said. “She’s like me. They’re two different things. You’re …” He swallowed. “You’re everything to me. You know that. Don’t pretend that you don’t.” She "
172 " maybe i just loved some of you. maybe not enough "
173 " I'm not myself', she offered guiltily. ... He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like. "
174 " I am 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 thay he was trying to make her into his little chicken, and that she would never be anyone's 'little obedient chicken "