Meg Cabot

Author

1967-02-01

Quotes by Meg Cabot

• But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don't want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn't —feminine.

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• Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?

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• 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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• 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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• Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.

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• But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

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• Cal: "I'm not presuming. I know exactly what you think about me. You think I'm an anal-retentive Armrest Nazi . . . an arrogant Modelizer. You can't stand the way I talk, any of the subjects I choose to talk about, the imperious manner I order food in restaurants or tell cab drivers how much we owe them. You find my taste in women odious, the fact that I don't own a television an unforgivable sin, and the fact that I would choose to write a book about Saudi Arabia completely unfathomable. And you're also totally in love with me. If you weren't you wouldn't have pushed me into the pool earlier today when you saw Grazi walk in."Every Boy's Got One

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• Cal: "Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours." Bastard. I didn't even sing along with the radio. Much.Me: "Yeah. And?" Cal: "Something happened."Me: "If you're referring to my driving skills, may I just say I didn't TOUCH that truck. What you felt was just the wind. We were going pretty fast. And there wasn't even a scratch. I checked."Every Boy's Got One

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

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• Sorry, Bex, Jason said You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Whereas Crazytop here...well, just look at her. Atleast I can blow-dry my hair straight, I pointed out. Which is more than what I can say for your nose, Hawkface.

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• And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There's clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People's lives were saved because of what those voices told her.

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• Who-who are you? Seth asked, hesitantly.Wh-what do you want? How else was was I supposed to reply? The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them.I mean, I'd only seen the movie like seventeen times. I'm Luke Skywalker, I said. I'm here to rescue you.

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• It's one thing to protect yourself,— Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?"I shrugged. —A seven-figure civil suit?

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• 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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• And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time

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• I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.

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• Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

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• It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

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• Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue?

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• The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.

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