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028b706
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Look, I owe you a kind of explanation. I know you probably think I'm a horrid bitch from the plant Schizophrenia, but I'm honestly not trying to mess with your head. I'm just messing with my own head and I seem to have dragged you along the ride. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't..
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Rachel Cohn David Levithnan |
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bcc683b
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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
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Rachel Cohn |
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4be6a6d
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Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
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life
love
nick-norah-s-infinite-playlist
reality-check
nightmare
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Rachel Cohn |
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fdd10a1
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Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head
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Rachel Cohn |
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c7ee0a5
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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."
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friendship
heartbreak
love
heartache
unrequited-love
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Rachel Cohn |
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296f811
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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..
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Rachel Cohn |
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d597bff
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So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?
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Rachel Cohn |
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bc9bd29
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The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.
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Rachel Cohn |
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16aea0a
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There's 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.
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Rachel Cohn |
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17a35eb
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I stand up from the table and wiggle my index finger at Nick. He'll never get it, but I borrow from Heathers as I leave him to follow Tris. A true friend's work is never done," I singsong. Bulimia is so '87, Heather," he answers. HOLY SHIT squared. I think I just had my first orgasm."
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Rachel Cohn |
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d9a560f
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There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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431c9c0
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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
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rachel-cohn
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Rachel Cohn |
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062b258
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Fuck me. Fuck me for always getting into situations like this. Fuck me for caring. Fuck me for not knowing the words that would've made her stay. Fuck me for not knowing what I want. Fuck me for wavering. Fuck me for not kissing her back the right way. Fuck me for getting my hopes up. Fuck me for not having more realistic hopes. Fuck me for giving her my fucking jacket. Fuck.
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Rachel Cohn |
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e9b29d2
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The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.
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Rachel Cohn |
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905f2a6
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Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new supply of red notebooks in there, and you want us to fill them in with clues about the works of, say, Nicholas Sparks." "Who?" I asked. Please, no more broody poets. I couldn't keep up. "You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said."
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Rachel Cohn |
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d873f01
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The reward is in the risk.
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risk-taking
reward
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Rachel Cohn |
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f5615a6
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The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren't so germ-phobic with each other that we won't share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.
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Rachel Cohn |
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1aa9523
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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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shopping
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Rachel Cohn |
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9d5ad81
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I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he's surrounded by beds. And not only that, he's surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can't help but think, Man, I'd love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I..
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Rachel Cohn |
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30cbc0b
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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04f5658
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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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friendship
love
nick-o-leary
norah-silverberg
crazy
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Rachel Cohn |
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64247bf
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It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us."
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Rachel Cohn |
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3809415
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I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?
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romance
humor
teen
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Rachel Cohn |
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a9235bc
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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.
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sex
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Rachel Cohn |
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d67b2cb
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I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.
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Rachel Cohn |
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414b442
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Rachel Cohn |
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f92e5e7
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I'm looking for Fat Hoochie Prom Queen," I declared. He did not respond. "It's a book," I said. "Not a person." Nope. Nothing. "At the very least, can you tell me the author?" He looked at his computer, as if it had some way to speak to me without any typing on his part. "Are you wearing headphones that I can't see?" I asked. He scratched at the inside of his elbow. "Do you know me?" I persisted. "Did I grind you to a pulp in kindergarten, ..
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Rachel Cohn |
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dfa49f3
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No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.
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Rachel Cohn |
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72cd6e0
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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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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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0dd08b1
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Aesthetic and utilitarian considerations aside," I said, "Those mittens don't particularly make sense. Why would you want to hitchhike to the North Pole? Isn't the whole gimmick of Christmas that there's home delivery? You get up there, all you're going to find is a bunch of exhausted, grumpy elves. Assuming, of course, that you accept the mythical presence of a workshop up there, when we all know there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, ..
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Rachel Cohn |
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b570932
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People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.
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Rachel Cohn |
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db55180
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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting."
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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405d505
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It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
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Rachel Cohn |
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f628a66
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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d99debc
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Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel)
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true
life
perspective
judgement
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Rachel Cohn |
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142db09
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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28b49ae
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Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.
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love
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Rachel Cohn |
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ed473c8
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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26fc81d
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With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."
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Rachel Cohn |
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40901d3
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Dash is getting very frisky in here with me, Mark." What I wanted to say was Dash raised an eyebrow at me again. "No he's not," Mark said. "How do you know?" "Because if he was, you wouldn't be calling me to rescue you right now, Googly Eyes."
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Rachel Cohn |
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2a616b8
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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1783324
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I kind of hate Nick right now, too, but there's someone else higher on my list, someone I hate more than Saddam Hussein and any asshole named Bush combined, hate more than that fuckhead who canceled 'My So-Called Life' and left me with a too-small boxed DVD set that does not answer the questions whether Angela and Jordan Catalano did it, or if Patty and Graham got a divorce, or if there really was something to all that lesbian subtext betwe..
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pop-culture
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Rachel Cohn |
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3fdc7d2
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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ce552ae
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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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Rachel Cohn |