Meg Cabot Quotes

#1. Meg Cabot is the best author ever

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#2. Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait.
Love, Michael.

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#3. I guess we will," I said, wondering how it had gotten to this: my cousin and me, fighting over who was the more powerful witch. I mean, talk about stupid. I

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#4. There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look ... and apparently, where NOT to look.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

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#9. Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We're supposed to be exercising.

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#10. I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

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#11. Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

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#12. And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.

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#13. Me: "Ngh"
Cal: "Well put."
...... Every Boy's Got One

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#14. French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

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#15. The discovery of a corpse's head on campus has worked as an expedient in getting the administrative staff to work before ten, despite the impending blizzard.

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#16. But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.

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#17. 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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#18. To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

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#19. Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

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#20. 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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#21. I don't understand camping. It's organized inconvenience.) "If

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#22. I understand you love him and UR down/ But that don't mean you gotta be his clown.

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#23. It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

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#24. These were things she hadn't felt wile being kissed in a long, long time. Exciting things. Especially when he lowered his head to kiss her again, this time on the throat. That's when she felt that her heart might burst from happiness.

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#25. I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

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#26. 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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#27. I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

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#28. 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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#29. And if you write something that cheers someone up when they're feeling down, doesn't that change the world?

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#30. I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

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#31. 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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#32. Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

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#33. Could there be three other words in the English language more effective at striking terror deep within the heart than Got a minute?

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#34. I get accused all the time of having a big
mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

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#35. Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.

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#36. I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

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#37. I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

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#38. You just said you were sorry."
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"I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-

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#39. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.

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#40. You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!!

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#41. It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness."
Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff.

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#42. This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists ... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

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#43. Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?"
I looked at his lips. I probably don't need to tell you that they're really nice lips, kind of full and strong-looking.
"What," I wanted to know, "is that going to get me?

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#44. Lots of people go through life not having the slightest idea what names to put in the blanks on their "Who Am I?" work sheets, and they aren't bothered in the least by it.

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#45. High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars ... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

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#46. 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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#47. I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

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#48. You don't have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.

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#49. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

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#50. You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

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#51. Nobody messes with a girl in combat boots, particularly when she's also a vegetarian.

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#52. 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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#53. He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

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#54. 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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#55. Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

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#56. I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.

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#57. Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that."
Every Boy's Got One

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#58. [while toasting] To blow jobs we want back

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#59. If you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream.

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#60. Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead,
too.

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#61. Oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

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#62. If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.

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#63. Am I really not worth shaving for?

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#64. I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107

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#65. My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

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#66. So take my advice: whatever you do? Don't blink

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#67. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash

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#68. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,

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#69. I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

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#70. I'm not some shy virginal college student who only owns one shirt.

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#71. No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative."
"No offense taken," John said mildly.

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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother
was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

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#75. Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.

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#76. They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes?

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#77. I looked where he was tapping.
"Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead"
Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My heart filling with dread, i took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?

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#78. Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?

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#79. Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob

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#80. Great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.

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#81. Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

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#82. I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

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#83. Lars watches Pretty Little Liars.

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#84. What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

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#85. Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

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#86. 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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#87. Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible.

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#88. What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out ...

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#89. And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

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#90. But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .

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#91. One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

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#92. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...

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#93. 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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#94. Cabrero, kayla said, narrowing her eyes at Alex. If you do that one more time, I will take this book from you and hit you with it till you're dead. Again.

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#95. Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.

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#96. Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her

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#97. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

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#98. Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet ... Somehow I'll miss you too.

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#99. Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.

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#100. Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit ...

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