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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: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Imagination
Brain
Guy
Ever
Norah
Nothing
Nick
Take
Shut
Infinite
Soon

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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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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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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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Do you still Kill Gerbils?
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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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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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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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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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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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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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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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But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
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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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So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?
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All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.
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Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.
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I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
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Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
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