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Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

silence, tiger-lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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.

beautiful, lost-boys, tiger-lily, ugly

Jodi Lynn Anderson

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

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Jodi Lynn Anderson

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.

beautiful, peter-pan, tiger-lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

. . . 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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Jodi Lynn Anderson

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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Jodi Lynn Anderson

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.

fantasy, fiction, young-adult

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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.

alone, growing-up, loneliness, may-bird, standing-out

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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.

nature, peter-pan, rules, tiger-lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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

brave, cowardly, peter-pan, protect, tiger-lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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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