Rachel Cohn
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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.Collection: Life
I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Kissing
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.Collection: Girl
The reward is in the risk.Collection: Risk
When in doubt, ingest carbs.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Love
The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.Collection: Universe
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.Collection: Glasses
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.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Believe
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, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.Collection: Brother
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?Collection: Bookstores
One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.Collection: Communication
There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.Collection: Ready
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)Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Cute
How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?Collection: Princess
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.Collection: Use
Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roarCollection: Islands
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.Collection: Real
You bookish little pervert.Collection: Littles
He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Block
So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?Collection: Shots
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.Collection: Luxury
So much is happening and yet nothing at all.Collection: Happenings
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.Collection: Morse Code
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.Collection: Demon
I am bigger than the box I'm in.Collection: Boxes
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.Collection: Music
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?Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Soulmate
There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stayCollection: Use
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.Collection: Notebook
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Lying
I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)Collection: Kissing
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.Collection: Sleep
[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.Collection: Pain