Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that’s too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they’ve made in their education that they think they should.”

— Meg Cabot

202. “If there are three words in the English language worse than “Got a minute?” they can only be “About last night...”

— Meg Cabot

203. “It’s what’s known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That’s no myth.”

— Meg Cabot

204. “How to be the best that you can be.”

— Meg Cabot

205. “Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you’re constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.”

— Meg Cabot

206. “Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there’s no such thing as vampires. They’re made-up. We writers made them up. I’m sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it’s true. They’re fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.”

— Meg Cabot

207. “One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.”

— Meg Cabot

208. “She hadn’t slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.”

— Meg Cabot

209. “Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can’t do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain – believe me, I’ve tried.”

— Meg Cabot

210. “Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.”

— Meg Cabot

211. “I’ve never even been to Long Island.”

— Meg Cabot

212. “The practice does lose its charm if overused –.”

— Meg Cabot

213. “You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.”

— Meg Cabot

214. “Strong female characters – even if they don’t necessarily make the same decisions that we might – make such great narrative material, especially when there’s an equally strong male character in the mix.”

— Meg Cabot

215. “But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”

— Meg Cabot

216. “In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.”

— Meg Cabot

217. “We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.”

— Meg Cabot

218. “You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?”

— Meg Cabot

219. “I know it’s probably wrong to fantasize about giving a nun a karate chop in the neck, but I couldn’t help it. She was making me mad.”

— Meg Cabot

220. “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?”

— Meg Cabot

221. “Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.”

— Meg Cabot

222. “I used to draw and illustrate, but I don’t do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.”

— Meg Cabot

223. “Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What’s unnatural about that?”

— Meg Cabot

224. “It’s just that the times I’m wrong don’t register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I’m right.”

— Meg Cabot

225. “It’s sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That’s all I have to say.”

— Meg Cabot

226. “No one’s future is certain. It depends on the choices they make.”

— Meg Cabot

227. “I can’t even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars. “Sorry” he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.”

— Meg Cabot

228. “The good thing about being in one’s midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don’t return people’s texts and voice mails.”

— Meg Cabot

229. “All I did was die,′ I said. ‘And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.”

— Meg Cabot

230. “Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I’m not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I’m going to look like I’m walking around with an enormous load in my pants.”

— Meg Cabot

231. “Lars watches Pretty Little Liars.”

— Meg Cabot

232. “What?” That’s when I knew how wrong I’d been.”

— Meg Cabot

233. “But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I’m a complete moron.”

— Meg Cabot

234. “Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don’t tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.”

— Meg Cabot

235. “When I get out of this hospital, you and I are going to sit down and have a very long chat, Susannah, about proper mediation techniques. I don’t know about this habit of yours of just walking up and punching the poor souls in the face.”

— Meg Cabot

236. “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?”

— Meg Cabot

237. “I think my teacher was wrong: making cheese wasn’t what I was born to do. I was born to make people feel good when everything around them seemed just awful.”

— Meg Cabot

238. “I broke my toe playing Olympic figure skater with Allie over winter break.”

— Meg Cabot

239. “On the elevator there was a man whose job it is just to work the elevator. He rides in it up and down all day, so the rich people don’t have to tire themselves out, pushing all the buttons. I bet he gets carsick. I looked around, but I didn’t see any throw-up. They probably take the bucket away when no one is looking.”

— Meg Cabot

240. “Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy’s Got One.”

— Meg Cabot

241. “Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done and they’re the only ones left to do it.”

— Meg Cabot

242. “It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.”

— Meg Cabot

243. “I needed another soda. I’d only had six since breakfast.”

— Meg Cabot

244. “Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob.”

— Meg Cabot

245. “One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.”

— Meg Cabot

246. “Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.”

— Meg Cabot

247. “Her name is Feather. Feather is apparently very famous for choreographing several hit Broadway shows. She also must be pretty hard up for cash if she’d agree to choreograph a snoozer like Braid! But whatever.”

— Meg Cabot

248. “I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”

— Meg Cabot

249. “I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many “feels” as the kids on Tumblr – my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it – often say.”

— Meg Cabot

250. “After more than one hundred and fifty years of living alone in the darkness, I met you, Susannah, and through you, I met Father Dominic. Everything my mother said in her letter came true. It wasn’t the same church, and it wasn’t the same priest. But the letter and the ring were there, all because of you. And now I want to give that ring to you.”

— Meg Cabot