Rachel Cohn: Want

“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.”

Rachel Cohn

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.”

Rachel Cohn

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“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

Love , Guy , Girl , Thinking

“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.”

Rachel Cohn

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“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”

Rachel Cohn

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

Soul

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

Rachel Cohn

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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”

Rachel Cohn

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Girl , Boy

“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.”

Rachel Cohn

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Love , Friendship

“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.”

Rachel Cohn

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares