Quotes from Meg Cabot

I think I've finally learned how to keep this big mouth shut.

problems aren't something you can run away from. You have to face them, or they'll never get solved.

I wouldn't care what she said. She's Luisa Ferrari. She has no power over me.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink. A girl is laughing with her friends. Suddenly, a crater splits apart the earth. Through it bursts a man in an ink black chariot forged in the deepest pits of hell, drawn by stallions with hooves of steel and eyes of flame.

That doesn't sound weird at all.

Treat your parents with loving care for you will only know their value when you see their empty chair.

The thing about secrets, though, is that they get out. And trust me, if you've got a secret, eventually, it's going to get out. And when it does, things are probably going to turn out to be okay ... well, after some counseling, or at worst, some jail time, or - if you're a celebrity - maybe a tell-all book with a couple of talk show appearances thrown in to apologize to your disappointed fans.

It's Important to Try to Make Your Friends Feel Good About Themselves as Often as Possible. Then They'll Like You Better

Now he has to make a choice: admit the wrong he's committed, and live with the sorrow of knowing she could never be his . . . or rewrite both their destinies, and change that moment forever.

Would you rather be the mayor from the movie Jaws who keeps the beaches open when there's a killer shark out there? Or do you want to be the sheriff who turns out to be right about the killer shark, and saves thousands of people's lives?

Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne

easily solved. It was solved by wearing jeans under my skirt. "Allie," Mom said.

Oh," I said again. I've always wondered how I'm supposed to respond to someone who says that they "used to" enjoy my books. Truthfully, it kind of hurt a little to be told by someone that they "used to" enjoy my work. It was nice that they used to, but painful to hear that they no longer did.

Kau tidak bisa merindukan apa yang tidak pernah kau punyai

That was the thing about Will Price, though: those good looks of his were deceptive. They'd managed to fool many, many people into thinking he was a sweet guy—a guy like the heroes he wrote about in his books, who lived only to adore and worship women . . . until he killed them off in some tragic freak accident, leaving the heroine brokenhearted but "stronger for having known what real love was." Barf.

No one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

Very little in life if fair, Susannah

And the Lazy Parrot Inn was the perfect setting in which to read a book about "one man's journey to redemption." It had been hard to tell from the photos on the website exactly what the hotel was going to be like. It had certainly looked nice (especially since I wasn't paying for it), but people and places almost always look better online than they do in real life.

Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends.

I guess we will," I said, wondering how it had gotten to this: my cousin and me, fighting over who was the more powerful witch. I mean, talk about stupid. I

What a pity, I'd thought at the time, that I'm saddled with Justin, who claims to be a writer but never actually writes anything and then complains that we never go out because I'm too busy writing all the time. I could maybe see myself with a guy like Will. Or maybe even Will himself.

Bursting into parties to which I wasn't invited - but acting as if I had every right in the world to be there - is another one of my many gifts. It's basically all about confidence - and having the right shoes, of course. If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.

This isn't true, Patty says. You'll find someone. You just can't be afraid to take a risk. What is she talking about? I do nothing but take risks. I'm trying to keep a psychopath from killing again. Isn't that enough? I have to have a ring on my finger, too? Some people are never satisfied.

I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.