Top 100 Megan McCafferty Quotes
#1. What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?
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#2. The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.
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#3. Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I?
Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.'
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#5. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow
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#6. You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.
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#7. I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.
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#8. It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.
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#9. Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.
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#10. Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
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#13. I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing.
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#14. Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.
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#15. You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.
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#16. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure
hearts
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#17. That's when I realized I had gotten too attached to the TV.
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#18. Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.
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#19. I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
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#20. I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.
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#21. You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.
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#22. Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.
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#23. Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.
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#24. I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so than those boys who lost their lives. Tragedy was part of our daily routine. But through it all, I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
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#26. But I can't help myself. And there he is, larger than
life on the screen, looking every bit as tortured and handsome
as he did the last time he tried to contact me a few
weeks ago. (Harmony/Jondoe)
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#27. Those were the best times, when I was still all promise and potential. Because right now I'm definitely not the most important sixteen-year-old on the planet. Not even ish. I'm just another prebumped girl dangerously close to wasting her prime reproductivity.
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#28. We just want to be where we're supposed to be. We just want to be with the people we want to be with. I don't think that's asking for too much, ya know what I'm saying?
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#29. See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.
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#30. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
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#31. All this girl-on-girl hate is exhausting. Sometimes I wish we could dose on testosterone, punch each other in the face, and get it over with already.
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#32. But why would it matter? We aren't ... or ... uh ... weren't ... "
Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then?
"We haven't been talking to each other."
Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.
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#34. But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.
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#36. He makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there ... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.
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#37. Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!
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#38. He's got a pointy bald head, and too much flesh hanging around his neck. The resulting combination gives him an unlikely yet striking resemblance to an uncircumcised penis. I secretly call him Rumpelforeskin.
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#39. I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ...
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#40. I don't know if she's making the right choice, but it's not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that's what sisters do.
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#41. Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress.
What did I want? A job. A clue. A love.
"Two coffees," Len answered for me.
Coffee would do for now, I guess.
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#42. Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!
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#44. There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.
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#45. Manda and Sara are annoying because their whole belief system is in opposition to my own. They live by a Grand Theft Auto morality, by which lying, whoring, and stealing scores innumerable points.
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#46. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
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#48. It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
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#49. I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.
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#50. We're all affected by life's random outbreaks of beauty and brutality
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#52. We're your friends," said Bridget.
"And we're worried about you,"said Pepe.
"I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!"
Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.
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#53. No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else
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#55. The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
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#56. Unfortunately for you, Scotty,' I said, removing his hand, 'they don't serve a drink called the Idiotfucker.
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#57. The birthrates aren't falling any more drastically than our own. . . ." There's some booing. And an angry voice in the crowd shouts, "Socialist!
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#58. After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education.
Oh, that's right. You totally can.
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#59. I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
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#60. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.
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#61. You have stopped the arrow of time ...
There's no meaning to this rhyme ...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you ...
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#62. We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit.
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#63. I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.
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#64. As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
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#65. But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way?
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#66. (Parentheses speak
More than we dare say out loud
Why, oh, why is that?)
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#67. Chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)
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#68. You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.
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#70. Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time."
I was totally confused. "In the car?"
"In your life," he said.
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#71. We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.
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#72. Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.
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#73. She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.
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#74. I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.
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#75. Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.
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#76. I still believe that one of the greatest advantages of college is that I'm officially allowed not to care about high school anymore
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#77. It just makes me wonder what subject you blame for talking to me every night.'
I'm still settling on an answer for that one. Probably Chemistry.
Jesus Christ. I can't believe I just wrote that.
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#78. I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.
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#79. Jessica ... The sound of his voice saying my name soothed me, and it's all I wanted to hear him say. Just my name, over and over and over again in his buttery baritone. I wanted my name to be his mantra, the word he meditated on, his tool for finding calm in the world.
But he kept on talking.
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#80. Don't stop doing what you love.
Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.
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#81. YOU'RE GONNA GET BUMPED BY THE BEST MAN BRAND IN THE BUSINESS.
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#82. As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.
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#83. Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.
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#84. Mine means 'body,' Tanu interjected.
'Wow, that's so eerie,' ALF said. 'Because ... you have a body.
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#86. I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.
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#87. Where are you in your cycle? Oh, WHO CARES? Let's get you two BUMPING right away. We don't want another trimester to go by with a FLAT TUMMY. And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but it would be just BREEDY if you could deliver the goods by next March.
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#88. And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives a whole new meaning to the word assassination.
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#90. A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.
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#91. Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches.
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#93. You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life.
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#94. I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.
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#96. It makes me question how many of my memories might be stolen from someone else.
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#97. That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.
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#98. I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.
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#99. I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.
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#100. Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?
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