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

by Rachel Cohn

But you know what to say to that? So what. That’s what you tell them. Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the story’s true or not. What matters is the care that’s been put into the story. The love. If something is pretend, that usually means someone has taken the time to build a story for you to live in. And building stories takes a lot of work.

“We’re librarians, sir. And we will not let you check out this future librarian unless you prove to us that you’ll take good care of him when he’s in your home.”

Or maybe just because we were blindly following eleven bagpipers, and while not a single one of them appeared to be pied, I was sure caution needed to be exercised whenever random pipers were concerned.

Even though it wasn’t night, we all fell silent, something in the sounds reaching far within us. Such a peaceful song, and so sad. Even though there weren’t any words, we were all filling in the words in our heads.