Rachel Cohn - Word Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

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There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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