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

by Rachel Cohn

She was enough to turn me a little cynical about my own cynicism.

It’s always the ones who believe who are hurt the most when things go wrong.

she wore her kindness all year round.

I didn’t really understand sadness.

There’s an alone that calls out for rescue—but this appeared to be an alone that wanted to be left alone.

Forced gaiety is the worst. I need sincerity to feel the season.

somebody has to like the people no one else likes or the world would just be hopeless.

She was the person I wanted to share life with the most, and it was the moments of noticing that made me feel this most acutely.

You’re never completely ready—you just get to the point where you’re ready enough.

I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don’t want to

we were both so fundamentally incapable.

“Wherever she is, whatever she’s doing—it’s not about you. It’s about her. And you have to let it be about her. Sometimes we don’t want to be found right away. If we step away, it’s because we need to be found on our own terms.”

I don’t know what it is about being a teenager, but lying seems to be necessitated with the hormonal territory.

Boys never say what you want them to. It’s probably the only lesson I’ve learned in life.

The truth doesn’t have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.”

The only problem with taking something back? It’s still inside there somewhere.

“People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please.

The trying is what matters.”

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.

building stories takes a lot of work.

it’s okay that it’s not okay.”

who would want to travel the world without another person’s heartbeat beside him?

there is a messed-up kind of beauty in the way we can all bend over backward to make life seem magical when we want to.

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 with someone you completely, unadulteratedly enjoy.

I could always find peace in books.”

it wasn’t so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.”

“I don’t trifle with subpar carbs.”

‘The worse people feel the next day, the better the party.’ ”

you don’t know me at all, so your observations, while delivered with conviction, are just so much horseshit to

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.”

A party, like the human body, will fall into rigor mortis without proper circulation.”