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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

Rachel Cohn

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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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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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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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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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I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
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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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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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So much is happening and yet nothing at all.
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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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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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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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Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.
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Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
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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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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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There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
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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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That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.
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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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