“Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders. "Did your mother teach you?" he asked. "I don't have… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said. She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“There was no twinkle in his eyes. "Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tiger Lily blinked at him,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I don't know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can't pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Look," Peter said. To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking like specks at first, was… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep up with him, she could hold… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I bit Tiger Lily, as hard as I could. I don't know how I thought it would help. Fairie bites are worse… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“You may think my jealousy would have been enormous during those days after Peter gave Tiger Lily the smallest kiss on the… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I recognized Tiger Lily instantly; I had seen her before. She stood out like a combination of a roving panther and a… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“She felt the warmth of Peter's arm under her neck, and it almost felt like he was an extension of her, and like if… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his head. He… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Birdie, this is for adults to figure out.” Birdie planted her feet where she stood. “I am an adult.” Walter shook his head. “You… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
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… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“How can I describe Peter's face, the pieces of him that stick to my heart? Peter sometimes looked aloof and distant; sometimes his face… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
