Top 100 Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

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2. “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.”

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3. “For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.”

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4. “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?”

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5. “You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”

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6. “He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

7. “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

8. “And I never expected tht you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

9. “Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

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10. “Manatees are real, mermaids aren’t. Rhinoceroses exist and sea monsters don’t. There are no more sea serpents guarding deadly whirlpools. There are pirates, yes, but there is nothing romantic about them. The rest is all stories, and stories have been put in their place.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

11. “To not do what you can to protect someone, that’s cowardly.”

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12. “We are just stardust after all.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “There was no twinkle in his eyes. “Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough.” Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn’t understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn’t work that way.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “I wonder if sometimes you can miss something so much it breaks you, and still be happy you left.”

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19. “May wished more than anything that she could show them both how much she loved them. She felt very sorry. Her whole heart was sorry for everything she had ever done to worry them. She closed her eyes and tried to send her love all the way to Earth. She didn’t know if it could travel that far.”

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20. “Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “It’s all part of a plan.” He said, and smiled. “Our reward isn’t here on earth. Earth barely matters. It’s just a practice, this life is only a passing place, a stopping point on our journey.”

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23. “I’ve made a discovery, and it’s that grief isn’t like sadness at all. 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. I remember the me before we got the telegram saying he was gone, but it’s like I’m remembering someone else. It feels like an earthquake has gone through me...”

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24. “I think that’s what you say when you can’t have something you want, isn’t it? You say you don’t want it in the first place.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.”

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30. “I know I’ll miss it forever, but I also know that I can’t give into that. As much as I’ve always loved Canaan and loved you, I want my life to go forward even if it hurts. And I’ve decided I have to reach for what I want even if my hands are trembling from fear. I’m sorry, Ellis, but I’m not coming home.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “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?”

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33. “Pine Sap said once that he would rather die than see Tiger Lily tamed. I guess Tiger Lily felt the same way with Peter, because she stayed behind.”

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34. “Sitting there, all delicate and dreamy, she looked as if someone had only given half a life to her.”

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35. “You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another.”

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36. “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.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

37. “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. For Peter, who feared losing so much, this was a great comfort indeed.”

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38. “I don’t know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can’t pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her visibly age beyond the days when she was with Peter. I like to think her growing stopped the day they were on the plateau, watching the horses.”

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39. “Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.”

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40. “From above, the world looks orderly. That is one of the primary benefits of having wings. Being high shapes everything below into peaceful patterns. And even though you know there is chaos below, messiness everywhere, it is reassuring to sometimes think that it all eventually sorts itself out into something that looks elegant.”

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41. “I knew them almost as well as she did, because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”

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42. “You love me,” she said. “That’s enough. We love each other.” “Yes. Yes, that’s true.” He smiled. “We are a love story.”

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43. “That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars... and us. That’s all anything amounts to.”

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44. “You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.”

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45. “I’m not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet,” he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. “You can’t unmeet them.”

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46. “I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.”

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47. “Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before.”

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48. “It’s shocking, isn’t it, that a kiss could have led to something so big and violent and full of light as a human being? It makes me dizzy to think of all the things that start that way. Whole families, whole countries, whole worlds. Isn’t it strange how a whole life can begin with a little spark?”

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49. “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.”

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50. “The moment slipped away, but because it wasn’t perfect, it was the most perfect one she could remember having.”

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