Rachel Cohn And David Levithan Quotes

#1. 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 in Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Rachel Cohn

#2. I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

Hailee Steinfeld

#3. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again.

Rachel Cohn

#4. If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

Martin Luther

#5. Music is an angry machine. We are all angry machines

Rachel Cohn

#6. I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.

Edward Norton

#7. Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.

Cornel West

#9. There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we have to do is align ourselves with what wants to happen naturally and put in the effort that is our part in helping it happen.

David Richo

#10. Maybe everyone in the world was this inconsistent, this fragments. All we could see of each other
all we could see of ourselves
was a ragged person-shaped outline, a game of connect-the-dots without enough dots.

Daryl Gregory

#11. Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy

#12. None of us would still be here if we hadn't learned to laugh so no one could see us cry." Hiding

Kit Rocha

#13. Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

David Levithan

#14. 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

#15. It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger boy, class clown, commander of artillery, altar boy, lace maker, exiled king, peacemaker, or moon goddess.

Pat Conroy

#16. So she had looked in on Mark, reading his correspondence with his copy of The Times airing on a chair-back before the fire - for he was just the man to retain the eighteen-forty idea that you can catch cold by reading a damp newspaper.

Ford Madox Ford

#17. "I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" The baby starts to come down ... and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it.

Tina Fey

#18. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.

Rachel Cohn

#19. A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

Elizabeth Taylor

#20. With faith, we can conquer the mightiest mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my departure will become somebody else's good luck

Rachel Cohn

#22. She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu.

Shannon Hale