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

by Rachel Cohn

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale—why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of a lobster?

“I see someone took his persistence pills this morning.

“What do I want for Christmas?” He looked thoughtful for a second, then said, “World peace?” “Not helpful!” “Well, what’s in your Amazonian hope chest?” Boomer asked. “My WHAT?” “You know, on Amazon. Your hope chest.” “You mean my wish list?”

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.

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around”? From Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road,

“There’s some chicken soup in the freezer! You can thaw it for Langston in the microwave.” I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I’ll make him some.

LOL

BECAUSE I’M SO UNCOOL AND SO AFRAID

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

“Sometimes, Dash, you take the fun out of fun,” Boomer said with a sigh. “And you know what’s left then? Nothing.”

Ate tbh