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

— Rachel Cohn

From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

— Rachel Cohn

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

— Rachel Cohn

Goodwill to all.' I know it's technically 'goodwill to all men,' but in my mind, I drop the 'men' because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad is. Goodwill shouldn't be just for men. It should also apply to women and children, and all animals, even the yucky ones like subway rats. I'd even extend the goodwill not just to living creatures but to the dearly departed, and if we include them, we might as well include the undead, those supposedly mythic beings like vampires, and if they're in, then so are elves, fairies, and gnomes. Heck, since we're already being so generous in our big group hug, why not also embrace those supposedly inanimate objects like dolls and stuffed animals. I'm sure Santa would agree. 'Goodwill to all.

— Rachel Cohn

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

— Rachel Cohn

I decided if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?

— Rachel Cohn

I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a lot.

— Rachel Cohn

I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all-inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of toyboy appreciation.

— Rachel Cohn

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.

— Rachel Cohn

I kind of hate Nick right now, too, but there's someone else higher on my list, someone I hate more than Saddam Hussein and any asshole named Bush combined, hate more than that fuckhead who canceled 'My So-Called Life' and left me with a too-small boxed DVD set that does not answer the questions whether Angela and Jordan Catalan did it, or if Patty and Graham got a divorce, or if there really was something to all that lesbian subtext between Bayonne and Sharon.

— Rachel Cohn