Top 100 Rachel Cohn Quotes
#1. I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.
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#2. I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - to possibly care - inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.
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#3. That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.
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#4. Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave
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#5. (Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)
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#6. We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.
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#7. But we had never gone out of our way to reveal ourselves, either. Instead, we'd let the facts speak for themselves.
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#8. 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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#9. There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words please stay
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#10. What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him?
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#11. I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right?
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#12. Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is - just a word.
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#13. This is the funny thing about New York - there are so many things to do at all times of the day, but there are still moments when you have no idea which of them to do, and feel extra silly because you know there has to be something out there for you to do; your mind just hasn't found it yet.
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#14. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love." Norah
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#15. The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Fuck
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#16. Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release.
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#17. The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.
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#20. She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love
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#22. I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)
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#23. 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.
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#24. This is why I should consider breaking my straight-edge vow. Beer most certainly would help this situation. It probably couldn't make it any worse. Basic
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#25. I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with.
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#26. Boy needs to get a good night's sleep. Otherwise, he'll be lucky to get accepted at SUNY-So Far Upstate You Might As Well Be In Canada, eh?
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#27. It wasn't about the fantasy. That was
now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.
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#28. Please return this notebook to where you found it.
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#29. It seemed weird to me that he'd spent his Christmas alone ... and had seemed to like it. He hadn't seemed to think anyone should feel sorry for him about that, either.
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#30. The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
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#31. A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.
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#32. It's a paradox, isn't it? The people you know the most, the people you love the most-you're also going to feel the parts of them you don't know the most
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#33. Of course you want to get to know her. But at the same time, you want to feel like you already know her. That you will know her instantly. Such a fairy tale.
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#34. So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.
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#35. You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said.
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#36. There's no such thing as ready," she says. "There's only willing.
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#37. I think we should get married here," I say. It's so obvious. Naomi sits down on the top stair, the edge of our corner, and rests her head against the wall. "Ely," she says, "we're never getting married. Never.
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#38. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
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#39. And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.
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#40. Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?
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#41. He can act a bit loner-ish, but I think he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
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#42. We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
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#43. Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
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#44. The more he gives me, the more I want.
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#45. I wondered what kind of monsters lurked in theaters to prey on people sitting by themselves because their brothers wouldn't get out of bed to take them to the movies.
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#46. Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.
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#47. I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking terror its leaders wreak on the rest of the world because they're too busy worrying if their cat might be stuck up a tree or something.
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#48. It was a red Moleskine - made of neither mole nor skin, but nonetheless the preferred journal of my associates who felt the need to journal in non-electronic form.
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#49. At last I had it - the Christmas present I'd wanted all along, but hadn't realized. His words.
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#50. Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist.
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#51. From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.
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#52. I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.
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#53. Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!
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#54. Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
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#55. The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
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#56. Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
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#57. Fresca, or Diet Rite?" I asked. "I'll have a Fanta," she said.
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#58. 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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#59. I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.
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#60. My hands were starting to shake a little. Because I hadn't known that I knew these things. Just having a notebook to write them in, and having someone to write them to, made them all rise to the surface.
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#61. I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
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#62. For sure, the last thing I was going to write to her was All I want for Christmas is you.
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#63. Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
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#64. If I'm just The Guy With Norah, that's cool. Right now, that's all I want to be. All the other things I am - they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.
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#65. He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.
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#66. I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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#67. 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)
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#68. The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred.
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#70. Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance - a frequaintance, as it were.
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#71. Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance.
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#72. I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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#73. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. - Nick
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#74. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces.
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#75. The whole thing was silly," I said. "Please tell her there's no need to apologize. We set ourselves up for this. I was never going to be the guy in her head. And she was never going to be the girl in mine. And that's okay. Seriously.
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#76. Someone should pay for their sins.
I'll show you Awful, humans.
I can't even see what I'm doing. All I know is rage, and panic, and darkness.
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#77. He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
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#78. Danger is a state of mind." Farzad informs me. "Conquer it, and you ride heaven.
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#79. I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.
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#80. My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and longing and believing, but then not having.
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#81. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, they sang.
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#82. 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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#83. Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet.
I want to roar
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#84. I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
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#85. She smells like marijuana smoke. It's not a bad smell. Just a sad one.
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#87. The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren't so germ-phobic with each other that we won't share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.
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#89. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.
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#90. Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
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#92. Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.
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#94. True Love. I'm starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney. - Cupcake
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#96. I know we're all following the same yellow brick road, looking for that ultimate band, that ultimate night to be remember.
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#97. I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.
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#98. 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.
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#99. It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
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