The Dare Quotes

“Sometimes we make all the wrong decisions, end up in all the wrong places, and still find exactly where we're supposed to be.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I truly believe that all body types are beautiful. It’s only when I look in the mirror that I forget.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Assuming I’ve done something wrong, that I’m not good enough, is the first place my head always goes.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Buy a man flowers, at least. Or hell, lead off with a good joke. But it is what it is, I suppose.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I realize now that the damage is done, that no matter the grand gestures and sincere apologies, sometimes you hurt people too much and push them too far. There’s a limit to what you can ask someone to endure for your bullshit.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Smashing atoms and the patriarchy”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Women are supposed to be soft and curvy and squeezable. I'm not sure when they were brainwashed into thinking otherwise.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“You’re ridiculously attractive, Taylor.” This time when he speaks, I don’t doubt his sincerity, if perhaps his sanity. I suppose someone like him doesn’t get around so much by being picky. “Don’t spend any more time believing otherwise.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Nothing shapes us like our friends. Family, definitely. Families fuck us up by an order of magnitude. But friends, we collect them like bricks and nails and drywall. They’re pieces in the blueprint, but that blueprint is always under renovation. We’re all deciding toward who we were always meant to be, choosing, mutating, growing into ourselves. Friends are the qualities we want to absorb. What we want to be.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Society tells boys to divide and conquer, and tells girls to save ourselves for some younger future version of our father. Just doing some quick math in my head and…yep, that comes out to a bunch of hypocritical bullshit. Your self-worth is not tied up in your vagina or how many girls came before you.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Note to self: always date someone who can bench-press twice your weight.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Get lost, Captain,” Connor drawls without turning around. “I’m wooing my woman.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Damn it, T, I’m trying to say I’m in love with you.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I only see you.” He takes my hand, rubbing his thumb over the inside of my wrist. “Just as you are. I don’t imagine you as some impossible ideal. To me you’re…real.” His lips quirk in a half-smile. “Stubborn, opinionated, pushy, funny, intelligent, kind, too hard on herself, snarky, sarcastic, jaded, yet somehow a closeted optimist. I fell in love with you for you, T. Nothing you could say or do would embarrass me. Ever.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Don’t mistake my manners for indifference.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Chad Jensen pokes his head out. “What the hell are you doing running around with no pants on? Put your damn cock away!”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I want you. I’ve wanted you since the moment I watched you cross the room at that party.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Taylor Marsh has no idea how cool she is, and that’s a fucking shame.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Because the worst thing about all of this, the worst thing I could have possibly done, was lose your respect. Nothing else matters if you hate me.” “If that were actually true⁠—” “Damn it, T, I’m trying to say I’m in love with you.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I don't care who you were before. Only who you choose to be now.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“- Never. I've gone completely mar for you, Taylor Antonia Marsh.
- That's not even my middle name!
- It's a middle name and I don't care”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Just because you don’t see my insecurities doesn’t mean they aren’t there. We all have scars on the inside.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Where do we find this asshole?” Foster grunts. “Should curb-stomp his face.” “’Bout to fuck up his whole day.” “Dude better have a will.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“No,” he mocks, “I just like to come in a few times a week to gather petals for my bubble bath.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Because whoever is torturing this poor girl is certainly watching us right now and they can eat shit. “Lead the way, babe.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“The boys are getting absolutely ripped tonight. We’ve”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Eu provavelmente cuspiria um monte de clichês que equivaleria a todas as noites que eu já tive. No entanto, de alguma forma, a vida colocou Taylor bem na minha frente, de qualquer maneira. Ela me fez uma pessoa melhor.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Most of the time, if you make fun of yourself first, it takes all the wind out of the fat-shaming sails. Showing people you’re self-aware softens their aversion to having a chubby friend. Because it’s important to everyone that we know our place.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Edwards. I don’t know why I’ve been cursed with sitting through this dinner with one of you knuckleheads—I assume I ran over a unicorn or set fire to an orphanage in a past life—but if you act like an idiot tonight I’m going to have you doing bag skates every day until graduation.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Only thing going down your throat tonight is water or juice or my fist,” he warns. “Sounds delicious.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare