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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
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But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
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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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There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words please stay
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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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.
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Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
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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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Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.
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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
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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.
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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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So much is happening and yet nothing at all.
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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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The reward is in the risk.
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People are like that, judging you before they know you.
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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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