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  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #1

    . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them.


  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #2

    A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime...I tried to talk sense into my hard little heart. But it had landed on Peter, a creature two hundred times my size and barely aware of me, and there was no prying it loose.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #3

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #4

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #5

    Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #6

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #7

    Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me.

    I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. 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. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic.

    The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it.

    It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't.

    I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. 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. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.

    Always,
    Your Peter

    P.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #8

    Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #9

    Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. 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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #10

    Everyone will think I'm ugly.
    Tik Tok smiled. That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #11

    For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #12

    Forget him. Forget him.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #13

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #14

    I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and to keep up-she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #15

    I could never leave,' Pine Sap said.
    'Why?' she asked.
    Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #16

    I just wanted to see if... we were okay, she said, feeling relief. Just to make sure we can be friends. I don't want it to be weird, you know? Friends? Different parts of Birdie died as she said it. It was like stars exploding and burning one by one. She wondered if this was part of getting older. Parts of your heart exploded and died.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #17

    I think we could be friends, he said, falling into step with her. It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like...you know. Not like a girl. He shrugged.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #18

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #19

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #20

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #21

    It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything, he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. I hate the world that does not work out fair.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #22

    Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #23

    Look, Peter said.
    To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking like specks at first, was a herd of horses, a species that in Neverland had never been tamed. They were beautiful, flashes of brown and black and tan, their coats gleaming. There was no reason for them to be running that Tiger Lily could see. It was likely that they just loved to run.
    That's what I want my life to be, Peter said, staring down at the horses.
    Tiger Lily sank against him and watched the herd, and thought that was what she wanted too.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #24

    One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all.
    The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #25

    Others wonder, if the Bogey isn’t wearing his pants, who is?

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #26

    P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #27

    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.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #28

    She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #29

    She guarded herself like a secret.

  • Jodi Lynn Anderson Quote #30

    She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

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