Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Dash & Lily, #1)

by Rachel Cohn

I am living. I remember you.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

I don’t think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own.

No sharp shocks of chemistry, just the low hum of knowing our place.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Her absence was palpable, even though she was still in the room.

We hadn’t vowed to write every day, and we hadn’t written every day. We hadn’t sworn to be true to each other, because there hadn’t been much to be true to.

because no one is ever who you want them to be.

You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don’t want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.

I meant that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.”