Rachel Cohn Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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  Love You, Games, Different

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

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  Dream, Lying, Rain

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

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  Tunnels, Bridges, Marketing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• 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.

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  Oxygen, People, Police

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

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  Fall, Thinking, Feelings

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• She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?

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  Mom, Sorry, Dad

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• Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.

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  Littles, Way, Things Change

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.216, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.

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  Crush, Soul, Comfort

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• 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.

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  Luxury, Care, Shallow

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

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  Badass, Want, Snob

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• 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.

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  Drunk, Ponies, Firsts

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Night, Sky, Matter

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.102, Egmont UK

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• All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

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  Hopeless

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• When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

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  Sleep, Night, Sunrise

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.102, Egmont UK

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• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

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  Reading, Romance, Everlasting Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?

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  Christmas, Bed, Would Be

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Hair, Let Down, Cried

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.110, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

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

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  Geek, Sci Fi, Closets

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• 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.

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  Lying, Trying, Lucky

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• Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

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  Sleep, Naps, Once Upon A Time

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I am bigger than the box I'm in.

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  Boxes, Bigger

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

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  Running, Prayer, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

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  Demon, Tricky, Courses

  Rachel Cohn (2010). “Very LeFreak”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

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  Mind, Needs, World

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