Top 100 Megan Mccafferty Quotes
#2. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.
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#7. Since I've known you, you've been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I'm in love with.
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#8. 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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#9. I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ...
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#10. 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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#11. Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!
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#12. 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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#14. 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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#15. But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.
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#17. I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.
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#18. I don't know anything about anything. 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 have yet to learn
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#19. 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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#20. Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
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#21. 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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#22. It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH!
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#27. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.
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#28. The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.
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#29. I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago.
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#33. Unfortunately for you, Scotty,' I said, removing his hand, 'they don't serve a drink called the Idiotfucker.
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#34. 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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#36. No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else
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#37. 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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#39. 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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#40. We're all affected by life's random outbreaks of beauty and brutality
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#41. 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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#42. It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
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#44. He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.
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#46. Am I the only creature with a vagina who thinks that weddings are ridiculous? I'm going to elope. Just me, my hubby, and a minister on a beach in Jamaica.
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#47. Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.
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#49. And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression.
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#50. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
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#51. 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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#53. I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.
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#54. I heard that he had all these pictures of you ... '
'Well, I heard you flunked out of school.
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#55. Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)
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#56. When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
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#58. Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
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#59. What is your definition of skank?' I ask.
'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.
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#60. Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.
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#61. Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it's too homo for them to handle.
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#62. I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn.
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#63. Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me
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#64. 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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#65. I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.
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#66. 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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#67. I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. I have an awesome on him.
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#68. I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.
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#69. 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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#70. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow
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#72. Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I?
Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.'
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#73. 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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#74. 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.
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#75. The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
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#77. 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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#79. Well, so much for the D'Abruzzi Pussy Legacy. Is nothing sacred?
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#83. 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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#84. You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.
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#85. I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.
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#87. I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
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#88. All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.
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#89. What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?
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#90. 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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#91. Oh, yeah,' she said. 'He likes your brain, J.D., but he ain't attracted to you, which is a cryin' shame, if you don't mind me sayin' so.'
No. How could I mind the truth? It was a cryin' shame, and my tears almost dripped right into my stuffing.
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#92. That's when I realized I had gotten too attached to the TV.
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#93. I may feel like a social outcast but im not really one. I think im an outcast inasmuch as I want to be left alone by people I cant stand which isn't really the same thing as true social ostracization now is it?
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#94. Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.
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#95. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure
hearts
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#96. You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.
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#97. You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.
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#98. Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson - LIVE! - is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?
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#99. 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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#100. I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers
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