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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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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Except
Saying
Truth
Norah
Nick
Infinite

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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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How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
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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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Males are the most incomprehensible species.
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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 am bigger than the box I'm in.
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When in doubt, ingest carbs.
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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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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
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The reward is in the risk.
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All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?
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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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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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I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.
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Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
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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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