Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily Quotes

“If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can’t seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don’t invent a new self, you instead build on what’s already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we’re at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don’t realise in the moment that it’s on the cusp of being altered.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“You’re quiet.”
“Not in my head. Never in my head.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“That’s what social media is: the fronts of the postcards, rarely what’s written on the backs.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“You’re on your own … until you’re not.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“What do you call Santa’s little helpers? Subordinate Clauses!”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform,”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Because, at heart, when I tell you I love books, what I am telling you is that I am a reader. Boil off all my pretensions, let my attempts at erudition rise away from me like steam, and what would be left would be a reader who is frequently amazed and educated by what words can do on a page.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“It’s good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“The only elixir to pass my lips was solitude.”
“Be careful you don’t drink too much of that. It needs to be balanced by a rich diet of fine company.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Life is so hard. I see it everywhere. I see the homeless people on the street. I see how tragically humans have hurt the earth. How terribly they hurt each other. I also know how lucky I was. I would take my privilege for granted.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“And one of the values is the way being lost can lead you to see what you want to find. It helps you sense where you want to be found. Or who you want to be found by.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don’t realize in the moment that it’s on the cusp of being altered.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Well, maybe Lily and I aren’t going to end up together. Maybe we’re mismatched.” “No, no, no,” Sofia said. “A mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making. Surely you know that by now. Are Boomer and I alike? Not at all. Are you and Lily practically the same person? Oh, no. And thank god for that. A match is two separate things coming together. Otherwise you’re not a match, you’re…a set. Two identical spoons. Boring.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“You were thinking about the things you love, weren’t you?” “Yes.” “Good. The fact that it took so long for you to realize I was gone means you have a pretty solid foundation on which to build character.” “But I also have stress and doubt and fear.” “Most human beings do.” “But it overwhelms me at times.” “Just as it overwhelms most human beings. Life, dear Salinger, isn’t in the vanquishing, it’s in the navigation.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Letting go is harder than you can imagine.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“I thought I was smart,” I said all of a sudden. “I really thought I was smart. But after the last couple of months, I’m not sure. And that’s paralyzing, isn’t it? to discover you’re bad at the one thing you thought you had going for you?”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“She didn’t fit perfectly into my new life, but the beauty of our relationship is that she hadn’t fit perfectly into my old life, either. Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“You’re alive, and this is what you’re doing with it?
Your youth grows pale. What do you have left?
I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. But they were stubborn, and instead of leaving, they jumped on the floorboards inside my head.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Relationships are measured in dog years,” Boomer said. “Excuse me?” I asked. “It’s a theory I came up with,” he continued. “Just take how long you’ve been together and multiply it by seven, and that’s how old your relationship feels. The first year? You’re toddlers and then young kids, enjoying things and also slowly figuring them out. Then you get to where we are, around the second year? Adolescence, man. It’s awkward, there’s rebellion, and most of all you’re just trying to figure out the relationship’s identity, right? Then around years three and four you get your jobs, you start to really work it. Hit year seven, middle age kicks in. But if you keep going, get to year ten—you’ve made it to old age. Maturity. And the cool thing is, you don’t even die when you get to year fourteen or fifteen—no, when your relationship really works, it can live until you’re hundreds of years old. Couples who’ve been together fifty or sixty years? They’re Yoda, Dash. They’re totally Yoda.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform,” Sir Ian said with a bow.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Bycie w odpowiednim miejscu w odpowiednim czasie i wsparcie tą obecnością drugiego człowieka to najlepsze, co możemy robić dla siebie nawzajem.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Wierzę, że duże zmiany w życiu przychodzą niezauważone; nie spodziewamy się ich nawet na chwilę przed.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“Budowanie charakteru nie polega na wymyślaniu się na nowo, a na dokładaniu do tego, co już masz. Do tych elementów, które są trwałe i mocne. Do tego, co kochasz.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“I know how to handle animals taking unauthorized expeditions.”
― Rachel Cohn, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

“This is not good,” I told the trees.
Don’t fight it. Acknowledge it.
Talk to yourself.
“Already covered,” I said. “Unless you have something to add?”
“No,” I replied. “Do go on.”
― David Levithan, Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily