Jodi Lynn Anderson quotes:

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.

I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. 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.

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.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

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

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.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

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.

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.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

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

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

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.

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.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

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

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