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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

Rachel Cohn

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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
Take
Shut
Infinite
Soon
Imagination
Brain
Guy
Ever
Norah
Nothing
Nick

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With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Nick says. Maybe, Nick says, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
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The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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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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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.
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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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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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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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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.
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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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How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
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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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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
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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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Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.
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Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
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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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