“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.”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I wanted to ask her, What does a stranger feel like? Not to be snarky or sarcastic. Because I really wanted to know if there was a difference,vif there was a way to become truly knowable, if there wasn’t always something keeping you a stranger, even to the people you weren’t strange to at all.”
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
― Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
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