“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.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“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, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“So much is happening and yet nothing at all.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“People are like that, judging you before they know you.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“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.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“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.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“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 me out of the nightmare and into this morning's light”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“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.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Say you're bored. Or you can't sleep. Maybe your mom is yelling at you, or the boy/ girl you like doesn't like you back in the same way, or you're too fat to even consider going to prom. Or the closet person to you since you were babies in the cradle together has killed herself. The usual stuff. Dread not. Don't be depressed. Be a junkie!
You can't count on people to nurture you through the trauma that is existence. But you already knew that.
Start by drawing the shades in your bedroom. Welcome the darkness. Lift the pill from your nightstand, clutch the water glass in your hand. Offer your divine thanks in advance. Be greedy-swallow the pill whole rather than spit it in half to spread the wealth for a later date. Dilution is wasteful. Savor the wholesome wholeness.
Now lay down in bed. Close your eyes.
Wait.
Just a little longer.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“Villains made no special guest appearances in our Once Upon A Time story games. They scared Laura and bored me, so instead we made up heroines with ghastly itchy skin but magnificent tresses of hair, and the occasional sleeping disorder. Those heroines had enough on their hands without having to worry about warding off true evil.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“'Freedom.' He pauses a moment to reflect on the F-word. 'Sometimes I think it's an idea that enslaves us. We're never free from hungering for the notion that we can even have freedom. When perhaps it's the very idea of it that causes us to suffer.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
“I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from You Know Where to Find Me
Rachel Cohn
Born place: in Silver Spring, MD, The United States
Born date December 14, 1968
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“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances, and a bit bovine.
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.
The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is lifelong, and it is not goal-centred.
What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life. There's the hap- the fate, the draw that is yours, and it isn't fixed, but changing the course of the stream, or dealing new cards, whatever metaphor you want to use- that's going to take a lot of energy. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realize that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
― George Eliot, quote from Adam Bede
“…how monstrous the people you loved could be.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.”
― Barry Hughart, quote from Bridge of Birds
“Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.”
― Susan Vreeland, quote from Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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