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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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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
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Throw
Worry
Without
Kind
Liking
Worrying
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How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
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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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So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?
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Do you still Kill Gerbils?
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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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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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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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Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
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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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The reward is in the risk.
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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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Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.
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They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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