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It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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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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It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.
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People are like that, judging you before they know you.
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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.
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Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
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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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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
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The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.
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That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.
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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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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?
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So much is happening and yet nothing at all.
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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.
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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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I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
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