Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
Rachel CohnThere's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.
Rachel CohnDrosophila,โ I said, remembering the word. โWhat?โ Lily asked. โWhy do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?โ โWhat?โ โFruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.โ โBecause theyโre hot?โ โThis,โ I told her, โis not the time for being truthful.
Rachel CohnIn a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
Rachel Cohn