Rachel Cohn Quotes

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake

I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

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

It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.

There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so