“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.”Rachel Cohn Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“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.”Rachel Cohn 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.”Rachel Cohn Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“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”Rachel Cohn Source: Nick & 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?”Rachel Cohn Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist