Top 100 Meg Cabot Quotes
#1. I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
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#2. Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
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#3. I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.
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#4. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it
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#5. Am I really not worth shaving for?
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#6. Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.
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#7. My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
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#8. If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me?
quoted by Susannah Simon
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#9. I hope they know how lucky they are to have you. But that doesn't mean I will ever stop trying to have you for myself. You know as well as I do, Meena, that we belong together. I hope that day will come sometime soon. In the meantime: truce.
With all the love in my heart, Lucien
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#10. Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob
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#11. No Hello.
No Hi, Pierce. Nice right hook you have there.
No It's lovely to see you. Sorry about your counselor being killed last night. Yes, I see your grandmother is a Fury even though I told you none was after you. I guess I was wrong about that.
Just Let's go.
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#12. What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.
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#13. Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
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#14. Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.
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#15. But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.
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#16. You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
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#17. Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information.
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#18. Every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.
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#19. Why don't you go to the drugstore right now, get an early pregnancy test, then go up to your apartment and take it before you go back to work?
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#20. I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.
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#21. Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.
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#22. I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.
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#23. No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can't have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice -
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#24. I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior," Alaric said. "I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation.
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#25. All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them ... They might get mad.
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#26. Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A
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#27. Because friends like that are more precious than all the tiaras in the world
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#28. Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
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#29. She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.
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#30. One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.
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#31. No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
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#32. Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.
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#33. Okay, okay, already," I said, holding up both hands in an I-surrender sort of gesture. "I'll try it your way from now on. I'll do the touchy-feely stuff. Jeez. You West Coasters. It's all backrubs and avocado sandwiches with you guys, isn't it?
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#34. I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon
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#35. I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
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#36. Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
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#37. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.
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#38. Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
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#39. Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done
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#40. I didn't know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, Wow
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#41. Flinging dog drool on innocent passersby?
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#42. Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne
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#43. I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast.
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#44. You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.
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#45. front hallway while they were gone.
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#46. You know", Grandma says, "you could learn a lot from Dr.Quinn. She knows how to make soap from a sheep's guts. And she had twins when she was fifty. Fifty!
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#47. Hey," Dopey said when I was finished reading. "How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton."
"Oh, yeah," Sleepy said in disgust. "Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn't for you, the guy's
skull might still have been intact.
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#48. Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?"
Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.
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#49. God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.
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#50. A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
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#51. Max the Ackermans family dog and brad had alot in common but max was defintely smarter
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#52. IN THE SECOND GRADE, WHEN YOU ARE A BOY WHO LIKES A GIRL, YOU GIVE HER YOUR BEST POKEMON CARD. OR YOU PULL HER HAIR. NOT HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE HER CRY, THOUGH.
OR YOU CAN ASK TO HER ROLLERSKATE BACKWARDS WITH YOU, AND THEN HOLD HER HAND SO SHE DOESN'T FALL DOWN.
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#53. Lana looked at me like I'd just said I'd never watched Bring It On, or something.
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#54. So there I was, sitting on the plane in a black leather motorcycle jacket, seeing these palm trees through the window as we landed. And I thought, Great. Black leather and palm trees. Already I'm fitting in, just like I knew I would ...
... Not.
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#55. When Louie is upset with us for, say, forgetting to feed him, he eats any socks he might find lying around.
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#56. If you have to say "no offense" to someone, you have already offended them.
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#57. Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
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#58. Hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.
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#59. Pizza Hut isn't real pizza," I tell them. "The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird.
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#60. There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
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#61. But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.
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#62. How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl?
Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy grandma,a homeless,Speedo-wearing prince and a freakish,hairless miniature poodle?
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#63. Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends.
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#64. I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you." That's what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.
Then he'd whispered. "And you're not even wearing Spanx.
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#65. If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.
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#66. I did remember. Mr. Rector and Mr. Endicott had basically taken a beautiful island paradise and bulldozed it into an ugly subdivision, complete with tennis courts and a tiki bar.
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#67. I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many "feels" as the kids on Tumblr - my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it - often say.
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#68. I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.
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#69. And then, little by little, the reality of what I had just done sank in: I had just killed my boyfriend's dad!
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#70. There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently you wait ... are never going to be yours. They'll never let themselves be tamed. Because they prefer to run wild and free in the forest.
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#71. I opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.
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#72. Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will.
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#73. Anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.
at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming
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#74. All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.
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#75. I'd leave too, but i still had half a beer left. You can't just leave a beer like that. It's un-American
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#76. Especially if he called me querida again.
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#77. I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.
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#78. But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.
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#79. I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer!
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#80. There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.
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#81. I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.
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#82. It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.
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#83. Everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else."
"This sucks," Alex said sullenly. "If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you.
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#84. I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.
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#85. It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too loudly between classes.
No novice has ever been created that could keep Gina quiet, however.
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#86. My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
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#87. One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there's the kissing.
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#88. The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.
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#89. That's them," Gavin whispers. He grabs his reloader. "The pansies.
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#90. And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.
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#91. Whatever it is that happens to people after they're dead. Rejoicing in heaven, or burning in hell, or being reincarnated, or ascending another plane of consciousness, or whatever.
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#92. The practice does lose its charm if overused -
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#93. I hope you're not planning on kicking me," he said,
not even bothering to look up from his book, "as hard
as you did those doors."
"I will," I said, "if the next words out of your mouth
are Pierce, you just need to relax.
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#94. Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.
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#95. Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.
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#96. Men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]
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#97. Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!
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#98. You're in Europe. You're young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years.
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#99. Tassels," I said in disgust.
Alex, too, was turned in his seat.
"You guys," he said. "He's still moving."
Disappointed, I said, "Kayla, back up over him.
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#100. How to be the best that you can be
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