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I am bigger than the box I'm in.

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
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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
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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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What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
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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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Males are the most incomprehensible species.
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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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Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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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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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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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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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
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How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
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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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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
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[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.
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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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All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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