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821d611
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Hellaciously Homely.
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Rachel Cohn |
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4226360
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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Her absence was palpable, even though she was still in the room.
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Rachel Cohn |
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663d34e
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I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it--to possibly care--inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.
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Rachel Cohn |
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51a6647
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The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to
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Rachel Cohn |
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76e1543
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I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
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Rachel Cohn |
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b9bd964
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I've never understood why looking hot has to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something?
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Rachel Cohn |
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a3e6273
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A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....
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Rachel Cohn |
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4e6d02f
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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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be888df
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I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular
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Rachel Cohn |
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0b6da19
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Do you still Kill Gerbils?
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lily
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Rachel Cohn |
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94b6e37
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Somebody how wouldn't judge another for 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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08fba7b
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I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.
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Rachel Cohn |
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d28ee14
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I shouldn't, but I do. I trust.
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Rachel Cohn |
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6a985aa
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It is not easy to hurl snowballs while holding on to a plastic bag of groceries, so my first few efforts were subpar, missing their mark. The nine maybe ten nine-maybe-ten-year-olds ridiculed me - if I turned to aim at one, four others outflanked me and shot from the sides and the back. I was, in the parlance of an ancient day, cruising for a bruising, and while a more disdainful teenager would have walked away, and a more aggressive teenag..
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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3bf7de2
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You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?
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Rachel Cohn |
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638f99c
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The reward is in the risk. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire. I abruptly stood up from my chair so I could return to my room and feel terribly sorry for myself and eat away too much chocolate in private "Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time??" -"You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?" "Yeah, that would be nice" They think t..
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Rachel Cohn |
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55b7c74
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Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back.
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Rachel Cohn |
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1cba830
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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.
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Rachel Cohn |
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4044878
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It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
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Rachel Cohn |
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3a9548d
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I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
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Rachel Cohn |
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fde9d35
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All I ever think about is food or sex.
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Rachel Cohn |
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79ec5ca
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But she looks at me with this total incomprehension, like she's watching footage of the world being blown up, and I'm the little blurb on the corner of the screen saying what the weather is like outside.
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Rachel Cohn |
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1125d54
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Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.
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Rachel Cohn |
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4524169
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I understand why Laura did what she did. I think I'm supposed to be mad at her, but I'm not. I admire her courage. She saw what the world had to offer and said, No thank you. She saw the lies and hypocrisy and violence and hate and meaningless of it all and she chose another path. She won't live to see her grandchildren, but also won't live to see them suffer.
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Rachel Cohn |
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c613db1
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The scene is very meets .
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musical
rent
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Rachel Cohn |
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d77df48
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I know it's technically goodwill to all men, but in my mind, I drop the men because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist. Goodwill shouldn't be just for men. It should also apply to women and children, and all animals, even the yucky ones like subway rats. I'd even extend the goodwill not just to living creatures but to the dearly departed, and if we include them, we might as well include the undead, those supposedly m..
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inspirational
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Rachel Cohn |
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0988a92
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What do you want ?" It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas."
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want
world-peace
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Rachel Cohn |
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84eb853
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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?
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Rachel Cohn |
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0d7b973
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Let your thoughts run free, as if your mind is taking a leisurely Sunday afternoon walk through a garden in spring bloom. I stand in the hallway, mute. Alone. I realize: I must develop the ability to go the distance rather than just envy it. Don't speak unless you can improve on silence The truth is never as interesting as what people whisper about them It's because the dream is so perfect that I can walk away from it That blackness brought..
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Rachel Cohn |
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b3fa133
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How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
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Rachel Cohn |
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45a529b
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I already know the words. I just need to learn the beat. This tone-deaf white girl will try to make music out of recovery.
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Rachel Cohn |
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229a93f
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When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.
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rage
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Rachel Cohn |
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6a385b6
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Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is--just a word.
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Rachel Cohn |
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85d71e9
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This is about as far as I can go without some sarcasm creeping in. But before it does, I must say, with utmost sincerity, that your cookies are good enough to bring some of these wax statues back to life. Thanks for that. I once made corn muffins for a fourth-grade project on Williamsburg and they came out like baseballs. So I'm not sure how to reciprocate... but, believe me, I shall.
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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Ash has a huge customized Barbie collection. Aside from Horror Movie Barbie (head lopped halfway off, torn and bloody clothes), Commando Barbie (camouflage bandana, pistol-whipping Ken with toy guns stolen from Josh), there is my personal favorite, Fat Barbie (dressed in a muumuu, sporting extra body girth and a double chin, thanks to the discreet placement of Silly Putty), I think Fat Barbie is genius but Nancy flipped out when she saw her..
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Rachel Cohn |
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ff14944
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Sofia was miffed. And if American girls make being miffed a sweet-and-sour emotion, European girls always manage to add an undercurrent of murder to it.
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Rachel Cohn |
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111fd9d
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And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books" --
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Rachel Cohn |
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I'm not fine. Soon, the tears will come. I can sense them building in the pit of my stomach, coating the belly of candy. They will come when I am alone in the dark, in my own bed, with no one to comfort me. I will mourn Laura then, in private. A Category 5 hurricane is building in my heart and soul, but right now it's offshore, waiting to make landfall, waiting to crush me.
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Rachel Cohn |
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6cc0f31
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I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. "Dashiell?" my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the phone at my mother's apartment. "Yes, Father?" "Leeza and I would like to wish you a merry Christmas." "Thank you, Father. And to you, as well." [awkward pause] [even more awkward pause] "I hope your mother isn't giving you any trouble." Oh, Father, I love it when you play t..
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sad
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Rachel Cohn |
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2d32647
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Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart. But then she felt betrayal, she hated, and she was feared. Hate gave her power.
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love
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Rachel Cohn |
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e4b4fcf
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It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning.
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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39680b3
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Goodwill shouldn't be just for men. It should also apply to women and children, and all animals, even the yucky ones like subway rats. I'd even extend the goodwill not just to living creatures but to the dearly departed, and if we include them, we might as well include the undead, those supposedly mythic beings like vampires, and if they're in, then so are elves, fairies, and gnomes. Heck, since we're already being so generous in our big gr..
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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cd00f32
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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.
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Rachel Cohn |
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698f016
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I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.
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Rachel Cohn |