The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (Dash & Lily #2)

by Rachel Cohn

He didn’t say, I’m outraged you never mentioned your friendship with Edgar! It makes me CRAZY to think of you hanging out with him. Everyone knows Edgar Thibaud is a world-class dawg in designer argyle, and I might have to, like, challenge him to a dual for your affection!

She tried to pull away. I held on.

“People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying.

“Here’s the thing about love,” Mrs. Basil E. replied. “You get a last chance. And then, when that doesn’t work, you make yourself another last chance. Then another. Then another. You keep going until your last chances run out.”

reality has the distinct potential to completely suck, and the way to get around that is to step out of reality from time to time and find something a little more enjoyable

I could always find peace in books.” “And escape?” “Escape, sure. But it wasn’t so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.”