Rachel Cohn famous quotes

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Life #Heart #People

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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Kissing #Appreciate #Hogwarts

When in doubt, ingest carbs.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Food #Doubt #Eating

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Needs #World #Moments

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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Love #Thinking #Bullshit

The reward is in the risk.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Risk #Rewards

Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Glasses #House #Abuse

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Stars #Classic

I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Geek #Sci Fi #Closets

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Wise #Character #Young

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Teenager #Book #Wind

I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Girl #Appreciation #Sex

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Ends #Stampede

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
-- Rachel Cohn

#Imagination #Guy #Brain

True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake
-- Rachel Cohn

#Cupcakes #Names #Illusion

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
-- Rachel Cohn

#Islands #Want #Quiet

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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Real #Struggle #Perfection

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Causes #Humans

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Girl #Fall #Guy

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Love #Girl #Hurt

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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Soulmate #Soul #Want

You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Song #Sex #Growing Up

Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself to believe a false dream from a false god. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Dream #Believe #Book

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Music #Heart #Race

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?
-- Rachel Cohn

#Suicide #Destiny #Way

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Dream #Nightmare #Ends

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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Couple #Children #Winter

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
-- Rachel Cohn

#People #Adjectives #Teetotalers

We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Reading #Believe #Want

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)
-- Rachel Cohn

#Kissing #Lists

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
-- Rachel Cohn

#Lying #Answers #Pits

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
-- Rachel Cohn

#Life #Baby #Life Is

[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.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Pain #Rocks #Giving

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)
-- Rachel Cohn

#Rain #Fall #Pages

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
-- Rachel Cohn

#Brother #Thinking #Steps