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
ready willing
There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
males species
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
romance confusing want
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.
stills
Do you still Kill Gerbils?
geek sci-fi closets
I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
suicide destiny way
What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
causes humans
The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
shots dear
So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?
princess causes flaws
How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?
cities gone ambassadors
Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.
signals given morse-code
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.
tunnels bridges marketing
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
oxygen people police
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.
nice lying block
Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.