“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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“Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga."
"A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured.
"That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”
― David Eddings, quote from Demon Lord of Karanda
“Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes - shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all.”
― Matt Haig, quote from The Humans
“Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.”
― Nick Harkaway, quote from The Gone-Away World
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
“SCARBOROUGH FAIR, or, THE LOVER'S PROMISE
(Lucy:)
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
Always he'll be a true love of mine
Tell him I've made him a magical shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Without any seam or needlework
Always he'll be a true love of mine
(Zach:)
Tell her she's found me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand
That makes her a true love of mine
Tell her she's plowed it with just a goat's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
She's sowed it all over with one grain of corn
Yes, she is a true love of mine
And her daughter forever a daughter of mine
(Together:)
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember us to all who live there
Ours will be true love for all time”
― Nancy Werlin, quote from Impossible
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