Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

— Meg Cabot

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2. “Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.”

— Meg Cabot

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3. “Looks can be deceiving.”

— Meg Cabot

4. “If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

— Meg Cabot

5. “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”

— Meg Cabot

6. “Check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

8. “There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.”

— Meg Cabot

9. “To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself.”

— Meg Cabot

10. “Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.”

— Meg Cabot

11. “Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can’t climb out of by yourself. That’s what friends and family are for-to help. They can’t help, however, unless you let them know you’re down there.”

— Meg Cabot

12. “You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”

— Meg Cabot

13. “Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

— Meg Cabot

14. “Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.”

— Meg Cabot

15. “But really, 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. And that can be deadly.”

— Meg Cabot

16. “Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”

— Meg Cabot

17. “Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”

— Meg Cabot

18. “You can learn a lot from letting other people talk, and just listening to what they have to say.”

— Meg Cabot

19. “Life’s not easy for unicorns, you know. We’re a dying breed.”

— Meg Cabot

20. “Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”

— Meg Cabot

21. “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.”

— Meg Cabot

22. “And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.”

— Meg Cabot

23. “When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black.”

— Meg Cabot

24. “A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I’ve read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.”

— Meg Cabot

25. “There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

— Meg Cabot

26. “Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.”

— Meg Cabot

27. “I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”

— Meg Cabot

28. “When you feel like an outsider – for whatever reason – you spend a lot of time alone.”

— Meg Cabot

29. “Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done.”

— Meg Cabot

30. “I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn’t ever give you more than you can handle, but I’m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!”

— Meg Cabot

31. “I don’t think he could ever be a serial killer. He’s way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing, from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107.”

— Meg Cabot

32. “Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home. Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?”

— Meg Cabot

33. “Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”

— Meg Cabot

34. “I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”

— Meg Cabot

35. “Oh, that’s just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don’t even believe me? I’m basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I’m not right in the head?”

— Meg Cabot

36. “In everyday life, we’re given a choice. Do the right thing, do nothing, or do the wrong thing. All too often, people choose to do nothing. And that’s all right. It’s easier. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But every so often, a few people choose to go out of their way to do the right thing.”

— Meg Cabot

37. “Kings don’t sneak.”

— Meg Cabot

38. “I’m eighteen; I’m a princess; and I’m a virgin. You know what? At this point in my life, I might as well be a unicorn. Happy freaking birthday to me.”

— Meg Cabot

39. “French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”

— Meg Cabot

40. “God made us sisters, but life made us friends.”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

42. “Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.”

— Meg Cabot

43. “I’m not resentful of the fact that she decided to marry a guy who lives three thousand miles away, forcing me to leave school in the middle of my sophomore year; abandon the best – and pretty much only – friend I’ve had since kindergarten; leave the city I’ve been living in for all of my sixteen years. Oh, no. I’m not a bit resentful.”

— Meg Cabot

44. “But he’s looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he’s campaigning.”

— Meg Cabot

45. “Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse’s dead, too.”

— Meg Cabot

46. “They’ve arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You’ve g-got to stop them! He d-didn’t do it! He can’t have done it! He doesn’t believe in murder! He’s a v-vegetarian!”

— Meg Cabot

47. “If you’re writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there’s a good chance the words you write aren’t going to be the ones that end up on screen.”

— Meg Cabot

48. “When Louie is upset with us for, say, forgetting to feed him, he eats any socks he might find lying around.”

— Meg Cabot

49. “What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.”

— Meg Cabot

50. “I’m going to ignore the haters, get out of this bed, and get to work doing what human beings were put on this planet to do: leave it a better place than they found it.”

— Meg Cabot