Quotes from Meg Cabot

I'd asked Dad for the millionth time if, now that I had a baby brother, I could stay in New York.........and Dad for the millionth time replied I had signed a contract and had to stick to it; when Michael said Actually, sir, legally, minors can't enter into contracts, and so according to New York State law, you cannot hold Mia to any document she might have signed, as she was under sixteen at the time, making it invalid.

Instead of being wakened to the sound of birdsong, like princesses in books, I was wakened to the sound of Rommel shrieking as Fat Louie beat him senseless for getting into his bowl of Fancy Feast.

to the Future: If Michael J. Fox doesn't get his parents together by the prom, he might not ever be BORN!!!!!!!!! Proving the importance of the prom from both a societal as well as a BIOLOGICAL point of view!

We have to face difficulties to find out what our true strengths are. How we come back from a failure is a very valuable test.

Chez Paolo," Grandmère said. Chez Paolo means "Paul's house.

The practice does lose its charm if overused—

I'm going to fall in love with someone else just as soon as I can. I swear. But in the meantime, is it so wrong that I enjoy his company?

Yeah. He gets me. Well, except for the part where I'm totally fine with premarital sex and am also convinced that God, if he or she exists, is, too. "Well

Am I the only one who recalls that Seth Turner used to think trees give off cold air because when you stand in the shade it's cooler than in the sun?

You, Wells, are what we in the force like to call a shitkicker. If there's any shit around, I always seem to find you in the middle, kicking it.

But there it was, the Pacific Ocean... huge, stretching almost as wide as the sky, a living, writhing thing, pushing up against a comma-shaped strip of white beach.

Ostensibly female but lack of breast size lends to disturbing androgyny.

No! It isn't fair! Rachel is EVERYONE'S type! I mean, she's attractive and athletic and well put together and successful and went to Yale and is making a difference in the world. What about ME? What about nice girls like me, who are just...well, nice? What about the nice girls? How are we supposed to compete with all of these competent, athletic, shower-taking girls, with their diplomas and their Palm Pilots and their teeny tiny butts?

Dolly, I swear to God, if you tell one more person that I saw Max Friedlander naked I will personally come over there and put a stake through your heart, which I hear is the only way to stop someone like you. He was not NAKED, okay? He was fully clothed. FULLY CLOTHED AT ALL TIMES. Well, except for his forearms. But that's all I saw, I swear it. So, stop telling people otherwise!!!

Okay, the cops are gone. I explained about my mother and her obsession with the transvestite killer. They didn't even get that mad.

Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.

Now?" Cooper looks back at me with a joyous grin. "Now we live happily ever after.

I opened the door and went inside, calling I'm home! Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.

Here at Shenanigans Neighborhood Bar and Grill, we don't put up with actual shenanigans.

Family wasn't just the people who had the same blood as you coursing through their veins. Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything. You had to do what was right by them. You had to, even if doing so broke your heart.

If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.

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?

Transatlantic phone calls suck because I can hear the ocean swishing in the background and it makes me all nervous, like the fish are listening, or something.

To keep your marriagebrimming, With love in the weddingcup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden