Rachel Cohn Quotes

“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.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Ifs Thinking Persons Dream Lying Next Dark Sleep Wonder Watches Rain Complexes Breathe Inferiority Inferiority Complex Dance In The Rain

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.”

People Earth Individual Focus Ought Citizens Responsible Domination Cliche Exhausting

“Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sleep Decided Wake Up Naps Once Upon A Time Sleeping Beauty

Book:You Know Where to Find Me

Source: You Know Where to Find Me

“I am bigger than the box I'm in.”

Bigger Boxes

“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.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Should Happens Wanted Kissing Appreciate Hermione Hogwarts

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Want Believe

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“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.”

People Life Heart May Important Form Our Lives Realms People In Our Lives

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Courses Demon Trusted Tricky

Book:Very LeFreak

Source: Very LeFreak

“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.”

Ifs World Want Needs Mind Might Happens Possibility Hopeless

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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.”

Way Mother Boys Plans Masters Intention Cute Purity Irrelevant Naughty Mother Nature

“I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People Used Found Adjectives Chum Teetotalers

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People Children Stills Reason Together Happened Streets Couple Glory Winter Snow Cozy Christmas Love Snowball Winter Snow First Snow

“True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Names Pure Illusion Concepts Starting Brands Suspects Hallmark Cupcakes Insipid Brand Names

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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”

Ifs Guy Imagination Brain Infinite This Guy My Imagination Playlists

Author:Rachel Cohn

“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”

Ends Stampede

“The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Mean Girl Enchanted Handwriting Cursive

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Acquaintance

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Self Stores Christmas Instant Department Shopping Pathetic Gratification Tactical Instant Gratification Department Stores Shoppers Macy's

“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 were him, I would be desperate for human company.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Ifs Thinking Men Humans Mean Doe Whole Helping Would Be Jobs Lying Hours Company Bed Eight Nine Desperate Paradox Salesman Lying Down Shoppers

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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.”

Laughing Share Army Zombie Coke Germs Straws Popcorn

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Thinking Want Mean Persons Guy Girl Expectations This Girl Every Girl

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Thinking Should Wish Wishful Thinking

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World Needs Moments Seems Wanted Smallest

“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People Different New York Starbucks

“Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Needs Wells Hard Quality Creatures Exotic Need A Boyfriend

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Acceptable

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.”

Way Littles Things Change

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Knows Soul Whole Mines Comfort Fingers My Soul Crush Threatened Boldness Magnet Resolute Intertwined Heaviness Demeanor

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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?”

Ifs Giving Helping Able Ready Mom Dad Clean Sorry Thanks My Sister Ashes I'm Sorry Merry Merry Christmas Grate

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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.”

Ifs Different Matter Moving Games Speak Language Sports Fields Universal Court Score Different Languages

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Thinking Feelings Fall Listening Bigger Stronger Crowds Boxes Falling Apart

Author:Rachel Cohn

“Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.”

People Want Needs Feels Has Beens Left Forget Mouths Police Stomach Wow Oxygen Riot Giddy

“You bookish little pervert.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Littles

Author:Rachel Cohn

“Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.”

Feels Firsts Helping Musician Mass Concepts Marketing Crowds Bridges Punk Tunnels Junkie Ramones

“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”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Different Whole Games Levels Love You Ought Video Complexity Embedded Different Levels

“It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Stills Broke Spells Implications

“Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Ugh Ergs

“I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.”

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Given Code Signals Operators Dyslexic Morse Code

“There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Said Use Wanted Please Please Stay

“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.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Guy Turns Appearance Rage Idiot Frigid

“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.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Thinking Knows Want Said Poet Please Red Sparks Clue Notebook Nicholas Spark

“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.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Ifs War Use Might Nations Compassion Kindness Please Kissing Believer Ministers Fake Zone Torn Famine Nun Kindness And Compassion Condom Non Believer Dead Zone

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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.”

Knows May Taste Yeah Green Threat Musical Acknowledge Suspects Usual Frank Minors Flip Clash Belle Frigid Musical Life

Author:Rachel Cohn

“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”

Knows Want Girl Boys Careful Be Careful

“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Use Fun Funeral

“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.”

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Cities Gone Streets Notes Contact Shops Mayors Goodwill Ambassadors 42nd Street