110+ Rachel Cohn Quotes On Education, Friendship And Environment

Rachel Cohn is an American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her novel Gingerbread, which was a National Book Award finalist. Cohn has also written several other books, including the Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist series and the Dash and Lily series. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rachel Cohn on education, friendship, love.

Top 10 Rachel Cohn Quotes

1. When in doubt, ingest carbs.
2. 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.
3. I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.
4. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
5. Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
6. Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
7. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
8. The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.
9. One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
10. 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.

Rachel Cohn Short Quotes

• Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
• There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
• I am bigger than the box I'm in.
• Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.
• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
• I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.
• How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

Rachel Cohn Quotes About Love

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want. — Rachel Cohn

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened. — Rachel Cohn

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? — Rachel Cohn

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 — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love — Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn Quotes About Life

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. — Rachel Cohn

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) — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing. — Rachel Cohn

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection? — Rachel Cohn

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke — Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn Quotes About Soul

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.” Ely in Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan — Rachel Cohn

From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Rachel Cohn

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 — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation. — Rachel Cohn

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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

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. — Rachel Cohn

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing. — Rachel Cohn

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. — 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. — Rachel Cohn

Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode. — Rachel Cohn

Males are the most incomprehensible species. — Rachel Cohn

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay — Rachel Cohn

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? — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention? — Rachel Cohn

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way. — Rachel Cohn

You bookish little pervert. — Rachel Cohn

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were. — 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. — Rachel Cohn

People are like that, judging you before they know you. — Rachel Cohn

Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure. — Rachel Cohn

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils? — Rachel Cohn

[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. — Rachel Cohn

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to? — 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. — Rachel Cohn

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

You should never wish for wishful thinking. — 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 — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions. — Rachel Cohn

So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you? — Rachel Cohn

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested. — Rachel Cohn

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

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. — 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 — Rachel Cohn

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time? — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn

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. — 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. — 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? — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same. — Rachel Cohn

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair! — Rachel Cohn

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic. — Rachel Cohn

The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do. — Rachel Cohn

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us. — Rachel Cohn

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

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. — Rachel Cohn

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List) — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

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. — Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all. — 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. — Rachel Cohn

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways. — Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. — 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. — Rachel Cohn

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up. — Rachel Cohn

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

Life Lessons by Rachel Cohn

1. Rachel Cohn's work emphasizes the importance of self-expression, resilience, and the power of friendship.
2. Her books often feature characters who are struggling to find their place in the world and learning to accept themselves in the process.
3. Through her stories, Cohn encourages readers to be brave and to never give up on their dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.