Quotes from Meg Cabot

Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?

Everyone wants to believe that there's something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

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.

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

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.

It wasn't me," Lars supplied, from the front seat. "I didn't tell." "Of course it wasn't Lars," Michael said, having overheard him. "Tell Lars no one is blaming him." Seriously, if my life were one of those romance novels with a love triangle, Lars and Michael would be the sexy paranormal alpha males, but the two of them would be in love with each other and just ignore me.

I can't even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars. Sorry he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn't even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we'd been making fireworks of our own.

Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

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.

men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

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.

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

and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. I'm a size twelve, she says.

The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.

This was something you had to work through on you own, Jason said. Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing. Oh, right, I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. And if I hadn't? Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away, he said.

I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

I look around for a conveniently loaded pistol.Sadly, there doesn't seem to be one available, so I have no choice but to answer the question. - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

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

Michael and I are an anomaly. Hardly anyone stays together forever with their first significant other, except maybe in YA novels. And usually when they do, it's because he's a vampire or a werewolf or owns a beautiful estate called Pemberley or something.

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.