Rachel Cohn Quotes

“Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.”

“She met a dashing man —he was, a dash.”

“He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.”

“Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.”

“Dot dash dotClouds in the skyMorris code”

“Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?”

“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.”

“Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.”

“But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.”

“Her wild race caused the dried-up ferns, thorny plants, and low-hung tree branches—away from the lake—to grab at our clothing in the mad dash over the narrow packed dirt through the trees.”