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Top 15 Meg Shaffer Quotes (2025 Update)

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”

1. “Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”

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Meg Shaffer Quote: “There is nothing braver than a child asking for help.”

2. “There is nothing braver than a child asking for help.”

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Meg Shaffer Quote: “I’m a kindergarten teacher. I can multitask like an octopus.”

3. “I’m a kindergarten teacher. I can multitask like an octopus.”

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Meg Shaffer Quote: “What’s a foot but not part of the body? Afoot, not a foot. As Sherlock Holmes once said, “The game is afoot.”

4. “What’s a foot but not part of the body? Afoot, not a foot. As Sherlock Holmes once said, “The game is afoot.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Don’t give up, Lucy. Always remember that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I’m listening.”

5. “Don’t give up, Lucy. Always remember that the only wishes ever granted are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no one is listening because someone always is. Someone like me. Keep wishing. I’m listening.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Always be quiet when a heart is breaking.”

6. “Always be quiet when a heart is breaking.”

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Meg Shaffer Quote: “God – or whoever is in charge of this planet – got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.” He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. “Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play.”

7. “God – or whoever is in charge of this planet – got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.” He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. “Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Ah, but that’s how life is,” Jack said. “Hindsight is twenty-twenty, they say, and they aren’t wrong. We only know the right thing to do after we’ve done the wrong one.”

8. “Ah, but that’s how life is,” Jack said. “Hindsight is twenty-twenty, they say, and they aren’t wrong. We only know the right thing to do after we’ve done the wrong one.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Another thing I learned in therapy?” Angie said. “The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They’re the ones who see that something’s wrong. That’s why they act out, because they see the house is burning down, and they’re screaming for help. That was you.”

9. “Another thing I learned in therapy?” Angie said. “The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They’re the ones who see that something’s wrong. That’s why they act out, because they see the house is burning down, and they’re screaming for help. That was you.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Did you know that the kids who grow up as the ‘favorites’ in families are usually more screwed up than the kids who aren’t the favorites? The first lesson we learn is that our parents’ love is conditional and that failure to perform means that they can take all that love away. We see it with our siblings, so we do everything we can to make sure that never happens to us. Fun, right? I learned that in therapy.”

10. “Did you know that the kids who grow up as the ‘favorites’ in families are usually more screwed up than the kids who aren’t the favorites? The first lesson we learn is that our parents’ love is conditional and that failure to perform means that they can take all that love away. We see it with our siblings, so we do everything we can to make sure that never happens to us. Fun, right? I learned that in therapy.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “I can’t buy time. No one in the world can buy time. All those wasted years of my life... I can’t buy them back. And if there was one thing I would buy if I could, it would be the time I wasted running from what I was afraid of instead of facing it.”

11. “I can’t buy time. No one in the world can buy time. All those wasted years of my life... I can’t buy them back. And if there was one thing I would buy if I could, it would be the time I wasted running from what I was afraid of instead of facing it.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Once, he’d loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moon. But he did. Now he knew the ocean was as dangerous as a sleeping volcano. At peace, it was magnificent. But when it wanted to, it could bring down kingdoms. Five years ago, it had brought down the small, strange kingdom of Clock Island.”

12. “Once, he’d loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moon. But he did. Now he knew the ocean was as dangerous as a sleeping volcano. At peace, it was magnificent. But when it wanted to, it could bring down kingdoms. Five years ago, it had brought down the small, strange kingdom of Clock Island.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is the thing with black feathers.”

13. “Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is the thing with black feathers.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “When you gotta scream, you gotta scream.”

14. “When you gotta scream, you gotta scream.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we’re most afraid of. And the thing we’re most afraid of is often the thing we most want.”

15. “Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we’re most afraid of. And the thing we’re most afraid of is often the thing we most want.”

— Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer Quote: “Because only brave children know that wishing is never enough. You have to try to make your own wishes come true.”

16. “Because only brave children know that wishing is never enough. You have to try to make your own wishes come true.”

— Meg Shaffer

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