Rachel Cohn
Rachel Cohn
Rachel Cohn is an American young adult fictionwriter. Her first book, Gingerbread, was published in 2002. Since then she has gone on to write many other successful YA and younger children's books, and has collaborated on three books with the author David Levithan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth14 December 1968
CountryUnited States of America
ergs ugh
Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
broke stills implications
It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
lying trying rest-of-your-life
It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
happenings
So much is happening and yet nothing at all.
expectations people guy
I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
adequate sensational dictionary
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
guy attention too-much
But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?
expectations connections anticipation
How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?
wells chests
Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
self bored awful
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
males species
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
worry kind sentences
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
notebook mom dad
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
boys people age
I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.