Rachel Cohn Quotes

Rachel Cohn is an American young adult fiction writer. Her first book, Gingerbread, was published in 2002. Since then she has gone on to write many other successful YA and younger children's books, and has collaborated on five books with the author David Levithan.

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✵ 14. December 1968

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Famous Rachel Cohn Quotes

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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”

Source: 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”

Variant: There's 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.
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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)”

Rachel Cohn Quotes about love

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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?”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn Quotes about guys

“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?”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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.”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“[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.”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn Quotes

“There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.”

Variant: There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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?”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“You bookish little pervert.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“When in doubt, ingest carbs.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: You Know Where to Find Me

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

Rachel Cohn book Gingerbread

Source: Gingerbread

“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”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“So he's worth a second shot?

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

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“A dream deferred is a dream denied.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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.”

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“The reward is in the risk.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

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

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Source: You Know Where to Find Me

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