Top 250 Rachel Cohn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The reward is in the risk.”

— Rachel Cohn

2. “I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

— Rachel Cohn

3. “A dream deferred is a dream denied.”

— Rachel Cohn

4. “I’m told there’s no going back. So I’m choosing forward.”

— Rachel Cohn

5. “I’ve given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.”

— Rachel Cohn

6. “So much is happening and yet nothing at all.”

— Rachel Cohn

7. “I am bigger than the box I’m in.”

— Rachel Cohn

8. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

9. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

10. “The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.”

— Rachel Cohn

11. “You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

— Rachel Cohn

12. “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals.”

— Rachel Cohn

13. “I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.”

— Rachel Cohn

14. “I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

— Rachel Cohn

15. “Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.”

— Rachel Cohn

16. “I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.”

— Rachel Cohn

17. “Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.”

— Rachel Cohn

18. “Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance – a frequaintance, as it were.”

— Rachel Cohn

19. “Books. I’d probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It’s easier that way.”

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Rachel Cohn

21. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

22. “The worse people feel the next day, the better the party.”

— Rachel Cohn

23. “What do you call Santa’s little helpers? Subordinate Clauses!”

— Rachel Cohn

24. “I could always find peace in books.” “And escape?” “Escape, sure. But it wasn’t so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.”

— Rachel Cohn

25. “I hope that global warming will go away. I hope that people won’t be homeless. I hope that suffering will not exist. I want to believe that my hope is not in vain.”

— Rachel Cohn

26. “A party, like the human body, will fall into rigor mortis without proper circulation.”

— Rachel Cohn

27. “The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.”

— Rachel Cohn

28. “We believe in the wrong things. That’s what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

— Rachel Cohn

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29. “So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.”

— Rachel Cohn

30. “Life is funny, baby, and that’s no joke.”

— Rachel Cohn

31. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

32. “When in doubt, ingest carbs.”

— Rachel Cohn

33. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

34. “But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.”

— Rachel Cohn

35. “You bookish little pervert.”

— Rachel Cohn

36. “Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.”

— Rachel Cohn

37. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

38. “Perhaps it’s not that I’m frigid – it’s that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.”

— Rachel Cohn

39. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

40. “He’s not my step brother technically, so I think it’s okay that I kissed him once.”

— Rachel Cohn

41. “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.”

— Rachel Cohn

42. “When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

— Rachel Cohn

43. “Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.”

— Rachel Cohn

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44. “Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.”

— Rachel Cohn

45. “I mean, what if love isn’t a yes-or-no question? It’s not either you’re in love or you’re not. I mean, aren’t these different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don’t go on top of the love. Maybe it’s like a map, and they have all their own place, and when you see it from the sky – whoa.”

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Rachel Cohn

48. “Answer all the questions that I’m too afraid to ask.”

— Rachel Cohn

49. “Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Rachel Cohn

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