Top 100 Jodi Lynn Quotes
#1. Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them, strange exotic birds, one too fierce to be hemmed in as a girl, and the other too hesitant to be respected as a boy.
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#2. 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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#3. I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.
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#7. I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.
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#8. She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#13. 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.
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#15. Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.
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#16. Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
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#17. 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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#18. What you did was very brave," Aunt Sticky Feet said, her words clipped but not unkind, "but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men."
"I don't care about that," Tiger Lily said quietly.
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#19. Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more than okay.
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#26. 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 them.
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#28. 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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#29. For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him ... the last time someone had seen them, they were living on a duck's back.
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#30. You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants
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#31. The day felt almost like any other day of the summer, like they'd rewound and summer was still ahead of them. But this time, from the start, there would be no question of whether they had each other or not.
This time, they would know.
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#32. I think people everywhere are the same. Only these people are my bones.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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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#36. Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.
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#38. 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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#43. You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.
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#44. But men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men.
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#45. 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.
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#47. By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#54. 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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#55. When they made up, it was as if nothing had happened at all. In fact, it was like they were stuck even closer together, like they had gotten even more tangled in each other.
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#57. 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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#59. 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.
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#60. It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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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#67. It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn't stay stretched.
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#68. She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.
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#69. 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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#71. Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. She tried to decide whether the silence was an empty one or a waiting one.
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#77. 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.
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#79. P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug
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#82. It took several minutes, but he was meticulous about each letter. IN MEMRY OF THE STRANJER, it said. HE LIVD AND DID.
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#83. It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. I recognized Tiger Lily instantly; I had seen her before. She stood out like a combination of a roving panther and a girl. She stalked instead of walked. Her body still held the invincibility of a child, when at her age it should have been giving way to fragile, flexible curves.
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#87. She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. But you'll be back. I know you will. You won't be able to let us go now.
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#95. 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 (She) had seen- really seen- me all along.
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#96. Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.
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#97. 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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#98. Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair
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#99. But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.
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#100. It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints there.
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