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.
Rachel CohnWe'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.
Rachel CohnNo one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
Rachel Cohn[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like Iโm making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as sheโs given me pain.
Rachel CohnI figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time heโs surrounded by beds. And not only that, heโs surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and canโt help but think, Man, Iโd love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.
Rachel Cohn