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I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking 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 blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can't hide.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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I mean, I don't know how the world broke. And I don't know if there's a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around us. Every minute - every single second - there are a million things you could be thinking about. A million things you could be worrying about. Our world - don't you just feel we're becoming more fragmented? I used to think that when I got older, the world woul..
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Rachel Cohn |
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There's no such thing as ready," she says. "There's only willing."
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Rachel Cohn |
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I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
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men
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Rachel Cohn |
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Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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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 ra..
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music
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It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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snow
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Rachel Cohn |
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I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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." Ely in Rachel Cohn and David Levithan"
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Rachel Cohn |
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Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
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Rachel Cohn |
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The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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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 escap..
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happiness
cinderella
carriage
fairy-tale
lily
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Rachel Cohn |
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Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance--a frequaintance, as it were.
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Rachel Cohn |
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You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint--ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. 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 their princes, but boys want ..
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love
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Rachel Cohn |
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I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.
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Rachel Cohn |
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I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.
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Rachel Cohn |
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Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.
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Rachel Cohn |
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When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan--making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
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Rachel Cohn |
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.
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self
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Rachel Cohn |
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You bookish little pervert.
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Rachel Cohn |
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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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. I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read. First, you learn the letters. Then, once you know what sounds the letters make, ..
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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Well, well, well," Santa said once the elf had retreated. "Come and sit on my lap, little boy." This Santa's beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasn't fucking around. "I'm not really a little boy," I pointed out. "Get on my lap, then, big boy." I walked up to him. There wasn't much lap under his belly. And even though he tried to disguise it, as I went up there, I swear he adjusted his crotch. "Ho ho ho!" he chortled. I sat gingerly on..
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Rachel Cohn |
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I don't know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash's demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.
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Rachel Cohn |
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Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
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Rachel Cohn |
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When in doubt, ingest carbs.
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humor
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
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Rachel Cohn |
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That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. 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,..
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Rachel Cohn |
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My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and longing and believing, but then not having.
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Rachel Cohn |