Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You don’t have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.”

— Meg Cabot

102. “But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.”

— Meg Cabot

103. “They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.”

— Meg Cabot

104. “There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that’s how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.”

— Meg Cabot

105. “Bite me, Harry Potter.”

— Meg Cabot

106. “Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”

— Meg Cabot

107. “You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.”

— Meg Cabot

108. “I whirled around. “It wasn’t just a kiss,” I said. I was getting really mad. “Maybe that’s how you wanted it to look, like it was just a kiss. But you and I both know what it really was: A media event. And one that you’ve been planning since you saw me in the Post. Well, thank you, Josh, but I can get my own publicity. I don’t need you.”

— Meg Cabot

109. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

111. “You’ll blow up a helicopter, but you won’t go out with me? What is wrong with you?”

— Meg Cabot

112. “Have you tried this shrimp? It’s freaking amazing. Would you get away from me? I hate you. You’re so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now.”

— Meg Cabot

113. “I think we’re given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn’t mean if you don’t act on it, you’ll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that’s more convenient for you.”

— Meg Cabot

114. “Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”

— Meg Cabot

115. “Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress?”

— Meg Cabot

116. “I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.”

— Meg Cabot

117. “Pizza Hut isn’t real pizza,” I tell them. “The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade isn’t the real Big Bird.”

— Meg Cabot

118. “I’ve come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she’s decided she dislikes you.”

— Meg Cabot

119. “Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends – my real friends – had done for me.”

— Meg Cabot

120. “I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America’s Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn’t all that funny if you think about it.”

— Meg Cabot

121. “Meg Cabot is the best author ever.”

— Meg Cabot

122. “I stared at the screen, aware that my heart rate had sped up. Sped up? I was so angry I wanted to ram my fist into the monitor, as if by doing so I could somehow ram it into Paul Slater’s rock hard abs. -Suze Simon.”

— Meg Cabot

123. “All men are pigs and I hope they die and monkeys take over, then things would be way better.”

— Meg Cabot

124. “People everywhere pray for a job where they can “work from home,” so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of these jobs, they keep themselves from spending the entire day going on YouTube and looking at videos about baby deer that have been adopted by golden retrievers. Because that’s all I’ve accomplished today so far.”

— Meg Cabot

125. “My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.”

— Meg Cabot

126. “I don’t give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don’t like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn’t read it.”

— Meg Cabot

127. “Why can’t you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?”

— Meg Cabot

128. “I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.”

— Meg Cabot

129. “I snatched the paper away from Dopey. “Hey,” he yelled. “I was reading that!” “Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try,” I said.”

— Meg Cabot

130. “I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn’t scared or nervous, but I didn’t like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.”

— Meg Cabot

131. “Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you’re heading for Awkward Avenue.”

— Meg Cabot

132. “I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.”

— Meg Cabot

133. “We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.”

— Meg Cabot

134. “My intention, of course, had been to wake up early and call Father Dominic to warn him about Heather. But intentions are only as good as the people who hold them, and I guess I must be worthless because I didn’t wake up until my mother shook me awake, and by then it was 7:30, and my ride was leaving without me.”

— Meg Cabot

135. “That hurt querida, that really hurt.”

— Meg Cabot

136. “It’s kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.”

— Meg Cabot

137. “Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She’s not dead. Not this time.”

— Meg Cabot

138. “One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.”

— Meg Cabot

139. “Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.”

— Meg Cabot

140. “But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.”

— Meg Cabot

141. “One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.”

— Meg Cabot

142. “But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

144. “You are a princess. And princesses do not run away when things become difficult. They throw their shoulders back and they face what disaster awaits them head on. Bravely, and without complaint.”

— Meg Cabot

145. “When something horrible happens, it’s human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

— Meg Cabot

146. “I wonder what it’s like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it’s very shiny there.”

— Meg Cabot

147. “Susannah, I love you, but you are the most frustrating woman in the world. For once in your life, don’t argue. Just do it.”

— Meg Cabot

148. “Remember, if you don’t feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won’t either.”

— Meg Cabot

149. “And that’s that as you get older, you lose things, things you don’t necessarily want to lose.”

— Meg Cabot

150. “No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules.”

— Meg Cabot