306 Quotes by Rachel Cohn

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    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.

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    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.

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    I made the mistake of turning back to look at her one last time before I left the room. It was heartbreaking, really – she just sat there, stunned. She looked like she was waking up in a strange place – only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.

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    The girl is dressed in a flannel shirt, and I can’t tell whether that’s because she’s trying to bring back the only fashion style of the past fifty years that hasn’t been brought back or whether it’s because the shirt is as damn comfortable as it looks.

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    Perhaps this was what was so unnerving about Lily at this moment – the trust that was required in what we were doing.

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    Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they’re very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny.

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    It is possibly true what Grandpa’s buddies have repeatedly told me: Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

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    Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar.

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    But I couldn’t concentrate on writing in the notebook. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

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