Quotes from Rachel Cohn

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

Their first date was at the symphony. How mean can a guy be who likes Mozart? I hope, at least.

and other, less important forms of merrymaking.

I'd never thought a single sentence could turn me off so decisively from both making love and playing the piano, but there it was.

You have to understand they're operating from a place of fear, like Fox News viewers.

I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either.

I'm a nineteen-year-old guy with nothing better to do than moonlight as a doorman, and daydream about you.

Please return this notebook to where you found it.

I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.

Ya sabes como es esa sensación que uno siente al esperar a alguien, y quiero decir, en verdad esperar a alguien.

Sometimes attraction is the only truth serum you need.

I am the Velma. I am the girl with the bowl haircut and the sensible sweater—the investigator, not the cause of investigation.

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.

I approached a small table at the far corner of the Sky Garden and saw Akemi sitting nearby, studying a math textbook. She wore a demure, long-sleeved, knee-length white lace dress, black patent leather Mary Jane shoes, and on the floor was her school backpack that said ICS-Tokyo and was adorned with pastel ribbons, bows, and lace.

Because I'm so tired of worshipping breakable things. Because I wanted to see the impulse through. Because I wanted to see the look on their faces. Because I wanted to do something that I've kept inside of me so they could see what's been inside me all this time.

But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

The point is that I really don't want to break up with me. In fact, what I'd like is for us to do the opposite of break up with each other. Break into each other!Boomer offered. Both Lily and I shivered in horror at this wording. I figured that was a good sign.

Strand, Mark [Blah blah blah biographical information, crossed out with Sharpie pen.] We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it, As though we had written it.

I went along, thinking if we pretend all was well, there would come a moment when it would switch the groove from being a half lie to being a more-than-half truth, and then ultimately it would be the whole truth.

I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.

I feel like I know her. Really know her. And part of really knowing her is also knowing that I don't necessarily know her as well as I think I do. Which is okay. We should each have our own damn souls.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around

I loved that there were cat symbols everywhere: feline figurines in window storefronts, cat posters, and cat ads. Even the construction signs were cats- pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off barriers, to keep pedestrians from stumbling into holes in the road.