The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

by Sarah Adams

Bree is one of the strongest human beings I know, but she’s also somehow the softest.

Now, I try to not take life too seriously. I believe in working hard but taking breaks. Resting. Goofing off and eating yummy carbs occasionally. Yeah, they almost always go to my hips, but I choose to believe it only makes them more squeezable.

After the accident, you stopped letting yourself dream completely.” She pokes an old wound I didn’t know was still there. “You went to therapy, and you learned to grieve the future you planned for and that was all great and helpful, but then it’s like you learned to cope so well you completely stopped hoping for anything. You’re seriously the queen of making the most of what you have now, but I’m not sure that’s completely healthy. Not if it means never dreaming or striving for more.”

Now that Lily has pointed it out, it’s almost as if I can hear my hope screaming from a locked closet in my heart.