The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily

by Rachel Cohn

“We always torch the ones we love –” “– the ones we shouldn’t torch at all.”

Are you going to be someone who takes charge of her feelings and her actions, even if the outcome might hurt, or someone who lets herself be unhappy simply because she won’t ask for what she wants?”

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. And, yes, there will come a time when you’ll see the story isn’t true. But the intentions behind it? Completely true. The love behind it? Also true.”

You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.”