Quotes from Meg Cabot

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

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.

He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night. Then Meena said, I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil. [......] Wait, Meena said, blinking. Are you saying..... Yes, Alaric said. That is exactly what I'm saying. Jon looked blank. I don't understand. Is he the devil or not? Lucien Antonescu, Alaric said. is a vampire. Not just any vampire, but the ruler of all vampires.

Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

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.

Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.

I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.

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

always remember that on the path to happiness, sometimes there are unexpected twists and turns... but that doesn't mean they aren't the perfect twists and turns for you.

Hasn't anyone ever told you, Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, that a gentlemen never lays a hand on a lady? Which I thought was king of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

Am I really not worth shaving for?

How to be the best that you can be

Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run. It's not okay to leave others behind, though.

You know it gets me hot when you're mad. What are you wearing right now under your stethoscope?' 'You're not funny.' 'Oh, come on. I'm a little funny.

It's my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there's a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it's on with the happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He's an actual PRINCE.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way…

Susannah, I love you, but you are the most frustrating woman in the world. For once in your life, don't argue. Just do it.

I can command the Royal Genovian Air Force, Grandmère supposedly replied. As well as the Royal Genovian Navy. But the one thing in the world I have no control over, Helen, is your womb. Now come along.

I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

I don't understand why you are so unhappy about it, Jesse said. He had stretched out across the tiles, contented as I'd ever seen him. I like it much better this way. What way? I groused. I couldn't get quite as comfortable. I kept finding prickly pine needles beneath my butt. Just the two of us, he said with a shrug. Like it's always been.

If you're gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you're riding a wave, dude.

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

Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work.