Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, itโs difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, thereโs nothing else you could ever want.
Rachel CohnThe best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and arenโt so germ-phobic with each other that we wonโt share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.
Rachel CohnThere is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
Rachel CohnIt's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.
Rachel CohnIt's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.
Rachel Cohn