Quotes from Meg Cabot

I thought if you wore that, no matter what face you saw every morning in the mirror, he said in his deep voice, you'll never forget who you really are. My eyes filling with tear, I held my hand out across the tabletop. He grasped my fingers, his grip strong and reassuring. As if I ever could, I said, my voice clogged with emotion, with you around to remind me.

I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.

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

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then.

On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.

I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly. "I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.

Reader, I married him. Ha! I've always wanted to write that!

This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally." "How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?

Because the best,most long-lasting love has a magic all its own,and doesn't need any help from witchcraft.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever done anybody in our lives?

My life is a convoluted web of lies.

Tassels, I said in disgust. Alex, too, was turned in his seat. You guys, he said. He's still moving. Disappointed, I said, Kayla, back up over him.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if pretty soon I start wearing ripped-up fishnet stockings and dyeing my hair black. Maybe I'll even start smoking and get my ears double-pierced or something. And then they'll make a TV movie about me and call it Royal Scandal. It will show me going up to Prince William and saying,'Who's the most popular young royal now, huh, punk?' and then headbutting him or something.

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

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.

Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will.

There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently you wait ... are never going to be yours. They'll never let themselves be tamed. Because they prefer to run wild and free in the forest.

You're in Europe. You're young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years.

Only a couple of people have figured out what a weirdo super freak I am on the inside. And those people all have a reason to keep my secret, because...well, I've helped them resolve their own secrets. One person especially. Miraculously, he fell in love with me. Don't ask me why. I think I'm fabulous, but I'm not entirely sure what he sees in me (except the fact that I've saved his life a few times. But he's returned the favor).

You're like the little mentally retarded sister I never had

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

I'd leave too, but i still had half a beer left. You can't just leave a beer like that. It's un-American

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.

Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down off the shelf and forgot to mention it to him, Douglas would notice right away it was missing, even though there are maybe a thousand other ones that look exactly like it right on the shelf beside it. Douglas is one of those books people