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Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
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Amazonian
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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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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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I am bigger than the box I'm in.
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The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words I love you ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game
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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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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
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Males are the most incomprehensible species.
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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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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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True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake
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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 was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.
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[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
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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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He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
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