Top 100 Rachel Cohn 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
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#2. Because I don't want to," I said. "Not because of the way she is now - I know that's not what she's like. There was no way it was going to be as easy as the notebook. I get that now.
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#3. The first person I think of when I wake up in the morning, the last person I hope for when I fall asleep at night.
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#4. A bum slumped in a corner seat called out, Give the girl a dance already, ya bum!
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#5. A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.
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#6. And It's not entirely true that I've never been in love. I had a pet gerbil in first grade....
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#7. The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
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#9. He sold the business but kept the corner block building,
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#10. 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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#11. I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.
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#12. Please return this notebook to where you found it.
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#13. It wasn't about the fantasy. That was
now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.
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#14. I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.
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#15. 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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#16. I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.
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#17. 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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#18. What's of more concern: 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 be able to just be.
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#19. Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)
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#23. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state.
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#24. 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.
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#26. She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love
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#27. I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns ...
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#28. Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
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#29. Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
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#30. 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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#31. 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?
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#32. 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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#33. Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
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#34. Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?
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#35. And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.
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#36. 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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#37. Sofia was miffed. And if American girls make being miffed a sweet-and-sour emotion, European girls always manage to add an undercurrent of murder to it.
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#38. I realized that Snarl had given me what I asked for as a Christmas present. Hope and belief. I'd always hoped but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it had happened. The notebook had made it so.
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#39. My family lives in that building now, along with Grandpa in the fourth-floor "penthouse" apartment, as he calls the converted space that was once an attic studio.
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#40. Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
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#41. 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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#42. There's no such thing as ready," she says. "There's only willing.
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#43. I don't think we should ever try to meet again; there's such freedom in that. Instead, let our words continue to meet. (See next postcard.)
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#44. 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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#45. The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.
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#46. What do you want ?
It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.
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#47. So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.
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#48. Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication
in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
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#49. 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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#50. I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century.
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#51. 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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#52. It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.
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#53. There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words please stay
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#54. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my departure will become somebody else's good luck
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#55. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.
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#60. No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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#61. (Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)
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#62. 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.
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#63. Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him.
"What?" said Dash.
"True love.
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#64. That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed.
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#65. 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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#66. Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.
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#67. Driver, can you tell him that I'm sorry? I wasn't supposed to be like this. I swear.
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#68. Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they're very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny.
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#69. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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#70. Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave
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#71. 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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#72. People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But
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#73. 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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#74. Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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#75. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
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#76. 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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#77. Snarl must love Christmas as much as me, I decided.
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#78. I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.
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#79. I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.
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#80. 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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#81. But somehow, knowing the Moleskine was tucked away in my bag, containing our thoughts and clues, our imprints to each other, somehow that made me feel safe, like I could have this adventure and not get lost and not call my brother to save me.
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#82. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?
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#83. The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise.
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#84. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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#85. Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release.
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#86. 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
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#87. 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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#88. I love the way you look when reading a book - content and dreamy, off in another world.
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#89. All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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#90. The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to
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#91. The girl is dressed in a flannel shirt, and I can't tell whether that's because she's trying to bring back the only fashion style of the past fifty years that hasn't been brought back or whether it's because the shirt is as damn comfortable as it looks.
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#92. I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
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#93. 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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#94. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.
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#95. When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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#96. Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?
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#97. And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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