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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: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Nick
Infinite
Except
Saying
Truth
Norah

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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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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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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 am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.
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Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.
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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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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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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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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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People are like that, judging you before they know you.
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Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
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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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I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.
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When in doubt, ingest carbs.
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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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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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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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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
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The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.
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