Top 300 Meg Cabot Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

212. “Guys always admire girls who look as if any minute they might punch another girl in the mouth. We.”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

220. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

222. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

226. “I didn’t even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There’d probably be a apocalypse or something.”

— Meg Cabot

227. “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

228. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

230. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

232. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

235. “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

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

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

— Meg Cabot

240. “Lars watches Pretty Little Liars.”

— Meg Cabot

241. “She’d realize Steve was her soul mate and that she would never love anyone as much as she loved him.”

— Meg Cabot

242. “The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.”

— 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. “They could be making her sleep in a closet under the stairs!”

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Meg Cabot

247. “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

248. “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

249. “Are you a pirate?”

— Meg Cabot

250. “Usually writer’s block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.”

— Meg Cabot