(via this--too--shall--pass)
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote “Dear Sofia” or “Dear Boomer” or “Dear Lily’s Great-Aunt” at the top of this postcard, wouldn’t that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote “Dear Lily,” was that just a version of “Dear Myself”? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
(Source: harryismycat, via dawnof--infinity)
Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.
—Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote “Dear Sofia” or “Dear Boomer” or “Dear Lily’s Great-Aunt” at the top of this postcard, wouldn’t that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote “Dear Lily,” was that just a version of “Dear Myself”? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.
—Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
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.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened.
We could have become friends.
—Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened.
We could have become friends.
—Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
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, if 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.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn’t even made it to my wish list.
—David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via followandreblog)
