6 Quotes & Sayings By Lily Brooksdalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The DUFF, which was released in January 2016. Before writing The DUFF, Lily worked as a personal trainer and nutritionist. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Nutrition Science from New York University, and a PhD in Neuroscience from Columbia University. Lily is currently completing her third book with HarperCollins.

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Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles. Lily BrooksDalton
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He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn't success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack the universe open like a ripe watermelon, to arrange the mess of pulpy seeds before his dumbfounded colleagues. He wanted to take the dripping red fruit in his hands and quantify the guts of infinity to look back into the dawn of time and glimpse the very beginning. He wanted to be remembered. . Lily BrooksDalton
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There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle–lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences. Lily BrooksDalton
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...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle. I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker. Lily BrooksDalton
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A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle. Lily BrooksDalton