DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES SENTENCE STARTERS : quotes taken from the 2010 novel ‘dash & lily’s book of dares’ by rachel cohn and david levithan.
“i’m told there’s no going back. so i’m choosing forward.”
“it’s only a game if there is an absence of meaning.”
“i want to believe there is a somebody out there for me.”
“i want to believe that i exist to be there for that somebody.”
“you think fairy tales are only for girls?”
“you think fairy tales are only for girls? here’s a hint — ask yourself who wrote them.”
“yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.”
“the important people in our lives leave imprints.”
“luckily, i always travel with a book, just in case i have to wait in line for santa, or some such inconvenience.”
“i am horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which i know is not socially acceptable.”
“you want meaning? well, the meanings are out there. we’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”
“what if love isn’t a yes-or-no question?”
“well, sure, who doesn’t need a boyfriend?”
“well, sure, who doesn’t need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. at least a quality one.”
“it’s hard to answer a question you haven’t been asked.”
“it’s hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.”
“we believe in the wrong things.”
“i love snow for the same reason i love christmas: it brings people together while time stands still.”
“i find i very rarely live up to my words.”
“i’m told there’s no going back.”
“i’m trying hard to see how this is germane.”
“i’m gauging your honesty.”
“what is the last periodical you read methodically?”
“what adjective do you feel the most longing for?”
“let’s say i have a hundred million dollars and offer it to you. the only condition is that if you take it, a man in china will fall off his bicycle and die. what do you do?”
“do you think abraham lincoln was a homosexual?”
“when you see a flower painted by georgia o'keefe, what comes to mind?”
“that’s just a transparent ploy to get me to say the word vagina, isn’t it?”
“i want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person.”
“the universe doesn’t decide what’s right or not right. you do.”
“somewhere between a friend and acquaintance — a frequaintance, as it were.”
“maybe it’s not the distance that’s the problem, but how you handle it.”
“with all due respect, if you [AGE] then i’m a fetus.”
“are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”
“making love without noise is like playing a muted piano — fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”
“you bookish little pervert.”
