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
love girl hurt
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.
girl fall fruit-flies
Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.
want-something islands want
Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
dream nightmare ends
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
two world ifs
We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
stories might realizing
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
brother thinking steps
He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
music heart race
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.
causes humans
The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
real struggle perfection
The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
stars classic fanatics
I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
girl mean thinking
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.
thinking wish wishful-thinking
You should never wish for wishful thinking.
new-york people different
People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.