Top 100 Jodi Lynn Anderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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.”

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53. “Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You’re so still. It’s like, you’ll just hear it.” He smiled wryly. “I can’t even hear what I’m thinking most of the time,” he said, his brow wrinkling. “My brain’s noisy.”

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54. “I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.”

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55. “Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn’t know how to. He thinks he’s a nice boy, that’s the worst part.”

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56. “And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.”

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57. “It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.”

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58. “Sometimes Peter and Tiger Lily fought. A fight between them looked like this: Peter, head swirling with anger, waving his arms around and expressing five thoughts at once about why she was wrong and he was right; Tiger Lily, curling up inside like a rock, stone-faced, listening but at the same time refusing to hear. She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments.”

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59. “I Love Jodi anderson and all of her books!”

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60. “When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they’d thought it was or if in England it was different.”

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61. “So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.”

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62. “She actually liked the idea that she might be made out of stars.”

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63. “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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64. “I just love crazy people like this,′ Murphy said. ‘Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.”

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65. “Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice.”

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66. “It never occurred to me before, but there could have easily been a world with no buses, no horns honking, no red lights, no shopping carts, no gum stick to the bottom of benches downtown. For that matter I guess there also could have been no sun, no trees, and no ocean. None of those things had to exist, I guess. It makes me feel lucky that they do.”

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67. “Don’t forget about the stardust. Don’t forget about the quartz rocks in the woods. You are small. But you are also so much more.”

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68. “So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation.”

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69. “I’m 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 that he was trying to make her into his little chicken, and that she would never be anyone’s ’little obedient chicken.”

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70. “She tucked her letter and her picture in alongside it, and she ran her hands over those too. It made her feel closer to many things that were far away, that made her smile.”

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71. “Actually, May have been thinking of something her mom had said. About how you didn’t make friends, but let them happen.”

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72. “Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?”

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73. “But you are the only person I can show myself to. You always made my rough edges feel real.”

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74. “Earth,” Alexa finally said. “It’s not that great anyway.” And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.”

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75. “And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn’t fair, because she’d suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.”

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76. “And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.”

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77. “I guess people are right when they say that time helps grief. I don’t agree that it heals, but maybe it wraps our losses up deeper and deeper inside so we can get on with being alive.”

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78. “Just for a moment, she could hear the muffled tick tick from inside its mouth before it disappeared underneath the murky surface, and curled away.”

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79. “From where I sat, Peter and Wendy were the two loneliest figures in the world. But Peter was somehow the lonelier of the two.”

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80. “It made her think about how she couldn’t believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.”

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81. “I think we carry home on our backs.”

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82. “May was used to strange things like this. Her mom always said all sorts of quirks came with a house as old as theirs. May used to insist it was ghosts. But Mrs. Bird had long ago given her one too many stern looks on the topic. So May simply sank beneath the water and let bubbles drift out of her nose.”

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83. “We don’t know where Millie went, and we don’t know if we’ll see her again, but there’s no reason not to hope. We don’t know the answers, and maybe that’s a nice thing.”

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84. “I don’t care if there are cracks in us, we are still us. We don’t have to be perfect to be right.”

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85. “She thought of all the things she’d forgotten to be scared of.”

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86. “But you’ll be back. I know you will. You won’t be able to let us go now.”

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87. “Peter sank. “I’d give anything to see time.”

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88. “She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about the exact color of the sky and which path they should take on a hunt. They disagreed passionately about whose fish was the best tasting. They could work up extreme hatred for each other at a moment’s notice.”

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89. “With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.”

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90. “Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”

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91. “Things hurt, and don’t hurt, and hurt again.”

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92. “This is no place for anyone with a heart.”

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93. “It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.”

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94. “She felt as bevy as a sack of beans. But then, a sack of beans never got embarrassed or did stupid balloon in front of other sacks of beans or forgot to lock the bathroom door. Come to think of it, life was easy for all the beans of the world. Being a sack of them wouldn’t be so bad.”

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95. “Others wonder, if the Bogey isn’t wearing his pants, who is?”

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96. “I think people everywhere are the same. Only these people are my bones.”

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97. “Faeries can be unfailingly loyal, even, apparently, to someone who doesn’t seem to notice them. And I felt loyal to the girl with the crow feather in her hair.”

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98. “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.”

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99. “What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.”

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100. “You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another. That was the night I realized Tiger Lily had seen- really seen- me all along.”

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