Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “However much they’re paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals.”

— Meg Cabot

52. “I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I’m not a complete moron, I’ve watched 90210, and everything.”

— Meg Cabot

53. “And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn’t mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her.”

— Meg Cabot

54. “Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.”

— Meg Cabot

55. “I’m sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you’re dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don’t have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they’re dead.-Suze Simon.”

— Meg Cabot

56. “Mia, I’m not sorry. And I’ll wait. Love, Michael.”

— Meg Cabot

57. “Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don’t let things get too far before the wedding day.”

— Meg Cabot

58. “If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn’t you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon.”

— Meg Cabot

59. “Life isn’t a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well – – the reason why everyone loves them – – is because no one’s life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”

— Meg Cabot

60. “The fact is, I love him. He’s the boy I want and one day he’ll be MINE.”

— Meg Cabot

61. “The peace sign is with two fingers not one.”

— Meg Cabot

62. “And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person’s idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.”

— Meg Cabot

63. “You can’t turn love on and off like a faucet.”

— Meg Cabot

64. “This is not to say that I wasn’t completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn’t exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.”

— Meg Cabot

65. “It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.”

— Meg Cabot

66. “In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.”

— Meg Cabot

67. “My life is a convoluted web of lies.”

— Meg Cabot

68. “But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.”

— Meg Cabot

69. “God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I’m not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.”

— Meg Cabot

70. “What’s the point? was my attitude. We’re all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”

— Meg Cabot

71. “Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn’t even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel’s body was doing wonders for my love life.”

— Meg Cabot

72. “I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?”

— Meg Cabot

73. “I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?”

— Meg Cabot

74. “Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.”

— Meg Cabot

75. “I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I’ll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.”

— Meg Cabot

76. “I like ’em big. And stupid. Don’t tell my husband.”

— Meg Cabot

77. “But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.”

— Meg Cabot

78. “Be like Grace: Wear large, dark glasses and a filmy scarf over your hair next time you go out in public. People will totally wonder who the mysterious beauty is, standing in line behind them at Blockbuster.”

— Meg Cabot

79. “In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.”

— Meg Cabot

80. “You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?”

— Meg Cabot

81. “And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real.”

— Meg Cabot

82. “I’ll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.”

— Meg Cabot

83. “When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.”

— Meg Cabot

84. “Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?”

— Meg Cabot

85. “You gazed into my eyes, what could I do but linger? I ran my hand through your hair, and a cootie bit my finger.”

— Meg Cabot

86. “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone.”

— Meg Cabot

87. “Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!”

— Meg Cabot

88. “Nikki “Brandon’s never hurt anyone. He’s competely sweet and adorable.” I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I’k just swallowed. If Brandon was sweet and adorable, I was Satan’s bride.”

— Meg Cabot

89. “I don’t do alcohol. Or other people’s boyfriends. And don’t you forget it.”

— Meg Cabot

90. “You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you.”

— Meg Cabot

91. “I think if I hadn’t been a writer, I’d have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn’t going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!”

— Meg Cabot

92. “I am going to start with the sock drawer because that is clearly the most important. You can’t really concentrate on anything if your socks aren’t right.”

— Meg Cabot

93. “If you really love someone, even if you can’t see where you’ll be or what you’ll be doing twenty years from now, you’d still want that person to be there.”

— Meg Cabot

94. “I’m Suze Simon,” I said. “And you thought being dead was bad? Buddy, your eternal nightmare’s only just begun.”

— Meg Cabot

95. “I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.”

— Meg Cabot

96. “Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.”

— Meg Cabot

97. “What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. – Mitch Hertzog’s voice mail message.”

— Meg Cabot

98. “I don’t have kids, but in many ways I feel I’ve had them already. I don’t want to say I raised my brothers – that sounds too strong – but actually I do feel like that a bit.”

— Meg Cabot

99. “Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don’t spend them doing anything you don’t love.”

— Meg Cabot

100. “My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate – we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.”

— Meg Cabot