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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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I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.
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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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Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.
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Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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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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Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
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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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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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She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?
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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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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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