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

Categorized in : Needs World Mind

I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he’s surrounded by beds. And not only that, he’s surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can’t help but think, Man, I’d love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.

jobs mean lying

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from whic... by Rachel Cohn

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

naps once-upon-a-time sleep

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

citizens focus people

Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself to believe a false dream from a false god. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him.

dream believe book

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

what-matters music heart

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I... by Rachel Cohn

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

brother steps thinking

[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.

rocks pain giving

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

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

life-is baby life

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

pits answers lying

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

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

lists kissing

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" a... by Rachel Cohn

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

distinction want boys

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.

twenties hands years

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask by Rachel Cohn

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

asks answers

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.

dream rain lying

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.

zombie army laughing

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.

girl mean thinking

You should never wish for wishful thinking. by Rachel Cohn

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

wishful-thinking wish thinking

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh. by Rachel Cohn

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

ergs ugh

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

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

morse-code signals given

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually havi... by Rachel Cohn

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

please use said