{"quotes":[{"text":"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 already,' he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["peter-pan","secret","smile","tiger-lily"],"id":9451,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["friends","girl","just-friends","not-like-a-girl","peter-pan","tiger-lily"],"id":30444,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["mother","peter-pan","tiger-lily"],"id":66640,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["listening","stillness","tiger-lily"],"id":80165,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"You looked strange climbing in the tree like that.'Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. '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. 'I don't,' she said.'All girls do,' he added, pushing the point.'You must not know many girls.'I know a million,' Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but if Peter regretted his words, I couldn't tell.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["boy","climbing","climbing-trees","girl","peter-pan","self-conscious","tiger-lily"],"id":98348,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["boy","gender","girl","tiger-lily"],"id":99928,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["captain-hook","injustice","peter-pan","tiger-lily","unfairness"],"id":106468,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["brave","cowardly","peter-pan","protect","tiger-lily"],"id":106540,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"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 some of me. 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. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. And I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. And for you and me.Always, Your PeterP.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["beautiful","growing-up","letters","love","peter-pan","remembering","tiger-lily"],"id":107752,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["hurt","love","peter-pan","retellings","tiger-lily"],"id":150807,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}