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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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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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e956157
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Some spray-painted graffiti on the wall asks, Is it nothing to you all who pass by? Lamentations 1:12 and I think, No, Lord, whoever the hell You are, this is not nothing to me. This counts.
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Rachel Cohn |
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25208ba
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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ad38f9a
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Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!"
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Rachel Cohn |
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6adf8f0
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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c344569
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What's a slut?" I ask him. "A girl who puts out too easily." "Puts out what?" I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that. "Puts out, you know..." His face, already beet red from our run, turns a darker scarlet. "Sex." I wonder where Greer puts the sex out."
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funny
ya
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Rachel Cohn |
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fc57680
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I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right?
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Rachel Cohn |
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667282f
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It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
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Rachel Cohn |
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dd0f698
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I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.
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Rachel Cohn |
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance."
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Rachel Cohn |
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2d17735
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Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
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Rachel Cohn |
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15b3873
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I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.
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Rachel Cohn |
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f751992
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I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.
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Rachel Cohn |
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2390415
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Males are the most incomprehensible species.
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Rachel Cohn |
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08dd6b5
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A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.
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Rachel Cohn |
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8283a18
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She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I'll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal." "It's Christmas, Dashiel. Can't you give that atitude a rest?" "Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents." "What presents?" "I'm sorry--those were all from Mom, weren't they?"
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Rachel Cohn |
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It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest. I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward The exhaustion of living was just too much for me to talk any longer It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? Why do we feel we need that disconnect in order to connect? I had done it. I had embraced danger. T..
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Rachel Cohn |
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What I'm sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I'm sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don't imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you'd had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.
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Rachel Cohn |
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6aa5ae8
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I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
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Rachel Cohn |
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cca4c04
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We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
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progress
world
improvement
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Rachel Cohn |
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There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.
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Rachel Cohn |
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It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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c796f69
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A bum slumped in a corner seat called out, "Give the girl a dance already, ya bum!"
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Rachel Cohn |
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95ad3e9
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From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books. pg 151
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Rachel Cohn |
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All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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life
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Who's Jessie?" "My Yugo" "You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick." "Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now."
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humor
love
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Rachel Cohn |
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e73ab1a
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Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could eve..
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humour
cyd-charisse
gingerbread
leg-injury
oscar-the-grouch
painkillers
pills
rachel-cohn
sesame-street
shrimp
medication
high
drugs
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Rachel Cohn |
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Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn David Leviathan |
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But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.
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Rachel Cohn |
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Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
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lying
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Rachel Cohn |
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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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Rachel Cohn |
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Although, 's origin circa 1627 made me still love the word, even if I'd ruined its applicability to my connection with Snarl. (I mean !) Like, I could totally see Mrs. Mary Poppencock returning home to her cobblestone hut with the thatched roof in Thamesburyshire, Jolly Olde England, and saying to her husband, "Good sir Bruce, would it not be wonderful to have a roof that doesn't leak when it rains on our green shires, and stuff?" And Sir..
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humor
lily
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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 special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with
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Rachel Cohn |
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He can act a bit loner-ish, but I think he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
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Rachel Cohn |
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a8030b0
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I move my feet, turn away from her, try to pretend she's not there, which is the biggest fucking joke I've ever not laughed at.
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Rachel Cohn |
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c02e592
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So much is happening and yet nothing at all.
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Rachel Cohn |
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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."
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truth
fruit-flies
time-for-truth
boys
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Rachel Cohn |
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a7b65b1
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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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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Rachel Cohn |
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c6b5413
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Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because mayb..
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magic
love
nick-and-norah
nick-o-leary
norah-silverberg
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