Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Michael and I are an anomaly. Hardly anyone stays together forever with their first significant other, except maybe in YA novels. And usually when they do, it’s because he’s a vampire or a werewolf or owns a beautiful estate called Pemberley or something.”

— Meg Cabot

202. “Okay, okay, already,” I said, holding up both hands in an I-surrender sort of gesture. “I’ll try it your way from now on. I’ll do the touchy-feely stuff. Jeez. You West Coasters. It’s all backrubs and avocado sandwiches with you guys, isn’t it?”

— Meg Cabot

203. “I hope not to be gone for more than a day or two, Susannah, but I am perfectly aware that in the past it hasn’t taken much longer than that for you to get yourself into mortal peril. Kindly, while I’m away, see to it that you exercise a modicum of caution in that capacity.”

— Meg Cabot

204. “Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can’t even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.”

— Meg Cabot

205. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

213. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

223. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

225. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

233. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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

240. “Lars watches Pretty Little Liars.”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

242. “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

243. “Someday you’re really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I’d like to visit there one day.”

— Meg Cabot

244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

247. “I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?”

— Meg Cabot

248. “Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.”

— Meg Cabot

249. “I don’t know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don’t. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.”

— Meg Cabot

250. “I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she’d just admitted she’s a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.”

— Meg Cabot