Rachel Cohn Quotes

“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.”

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”

“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 soul.”

Ely inRachel Cohn and David Levithan”

“No--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. (Nick, page 156)”

“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?”

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“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”

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”

“Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.”

“[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.”

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

“Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.”

“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.”

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

“Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask”

“The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.”

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”

“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”

“I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.”

“Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“You bookish little pervert.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

“The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.

-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”

“There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay”

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

“The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.”

“Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.”

“When in doubt, ingest carbs.”

“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”

“Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.”

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

“I am bigger than the box I'm in.”

“Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head”

“So he's worth a second shot?

The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?”

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

“Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.”

“A dream deferred is a dream denied.”

“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'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)”

“I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.”

“The reward is in the risk.”

“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”

“It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.”

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

“Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.”

“Dash is getting very frisky in here with me, Mark." What I wanted to say wasDash raised an eyebrow at me again.
"No he's not," Mark said.
"How do you know?"
"Because if he was, you wouldn't be calling me to rescue you right now, Googly Eyes.”

“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.”

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