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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
Wanted
Everything
Without
Please
Stay
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Words
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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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It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
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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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But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
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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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Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
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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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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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Do you still Kill Gerbils?
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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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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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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
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The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.
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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 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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People are like that, judging you before they know you.
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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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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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