Rachel Cohn Quotes - Page 4

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• The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

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  Fun, Funeral, Use

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.28, Egmont UK

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• Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

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  Cities, Gone, Ambassadors

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.99, Egmont UK

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• Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

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  Block, Nice, Lying

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

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  Shots, Dear

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

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

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  Hopeless

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

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  Lying, Order, Glare

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  People, Judging, Judging You

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Book, Way, Easier

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Adventure, And Love, Belief

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

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  Teenage, Boys, Intention

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.144, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

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  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Boys, People, Special

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

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  Notebook, Mom, Dad

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

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  People, Expectations, Guy

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Adequate, Sensational, Dictionary

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.238, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

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  Romance, Confusing, Want

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