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“life's better with girls. boys need girls.”
“Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.”
“Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.”
“She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.”
“Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?”
“To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.”
“Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than...”
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
“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 ...”
“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolution...”
“Look," Peter said.To the north was a series of vast grassy plains, and there, just looking like specks at first, was a herd of horses, a species that in Neverland had never been tamed. They were be...”
“Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.”
“I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and t...”
“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.”
“And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.”
“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 passionatel...”
“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.”
“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 he...”
“You love me," she said. "That's enough. We love each other.""Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story.”
“It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.”
“Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you...”
“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 ri...”
“Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesnt happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesnt seem broken at all.”
“For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, becaus...”
