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It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City —... read more
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The story tells of teenagers Nick and Norah, who meet when Norah asks Nick to pretend to be her boyfriend for five minutes. Over the course of the night, together they try to find their favorite band's secret show and search for Norah's drunken best friend.
Characters/People edit
- Norah: Jewish, straight-edge teenage girl.
- Nick: Straight bassist in queercore band. Recently dumped by cheating girlfriend.
- Caroline: Best friend to Norah. Drunk throughout novel.
- Lou: Norah's godfather. Owner of club.
- Toni: A drag queen. Norah's friend.
- Dev: Lead singer of Nick's band.
- Thom: Nick's bandmate
- Scot: Nick's bandmate.
- Tris: Cheating ex-girlfriend of Nick. Goes to school with Norah and Caroline.
- Tal: Sometime Israeli boyfriend of Norah.
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“I am stumbling through the notes and Dev is onto the next verse and Thom is playing a little faster than he should, so I have to catch up as she (Tris) leans into this guy and rocks her head like I'm making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she's given me pain.”
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“The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.”
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“…there’s someone in our way, and that someone is the girl who took the key to my heart and swallowed it with a smile.”
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“Yugo drivers are required to wear torn-and-graffitied hi-top Chucks shit on their feet. It’s like a rule. It’s in the manual.”
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“You have a name for your Yugo? Please don’t tell me you’re one of those guys who also names his dick.”
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“It screams that time is an angry machine. Music is an angry machine. We are all angry machines.”
Nick
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“There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.”
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I shouldn’t want the song to end. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I’m seeing we don’t live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It’s an infinite playlist.
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Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
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But I guess you don’t see the planets when you’re staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.”
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An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek or curse? No—when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you’re doing pretty alright in life.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.—Proust
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I am liking that I have to earn her smiles and laughs. I am liking the way she kissed me. I am liking the way she seems to be able to get past the past. I could learn from that. I am liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it’s too out there.
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“Tikkun olam,” I repeat. “Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job—everyone’s job—is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again.”
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“Maybe,” I say, “what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking.” Tikkun olam.
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First Sentence edit
The day begins in the middle of the night.
Table of Contents edit
1.Nick
2.Norah
3.Nick
4.Norah
5.Nick
6.Norah
7.Nick
8.Norah
9.Nick
10.Norah
11.Nick
12.Norah
13.Nick
14.Norah
15.Nick
16.Norah
17.Nick
18.Norah
19.Nick
20.Norah
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Taking Chances: Taking chances, even small ones, can have a huge positive impact on your life.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- David Levithan (Author)
- Rachel Cohn
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0375835318
Page Count: 183
Publisher: Knopf
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0375835318
Page Count: 183
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