Top 70 Megan McCafferty Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The road less traveled will not be smooth.”

— Megan McCafferty

2. “Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

— Megan McCafferty

3. “We are perfect in our imperfection.”

— Megan McCafferty

4. “Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?”

— Megan McCafferty

5. “My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie.”

— Megan McCafferty

6. “You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn’t a bad mood at all; it’s just your sucky personality.”

— Megan McCafferty

7. “Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.”

— Megan McCafferty

8. “I don’t know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn.”

— Megan McCafferty

9. “Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.”

— Megan McCafferty

10. “And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever.”

— Megan McCafferty

11. “I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.”

— Megan McCafferty

12. “I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.”

— Megan McCafferty

13. “Words can be used as a bomb or balm.”

— Megan McCafferty

14. “Don’t stop doing what you love. Don’t let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.”

— Megan McCafferty

15. “The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.”

— Megan McCafferty

16. “As much as I don’t care about those things, I think it’s human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”

— Megan McCafferty

17. “Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.”

— Megan McCafferty

18. “I can let my true self shine in front of God.”

— Megan McCafferty

19. “I wish our love was right now.”

— Megan McCafferty

20. “Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow.”

— Megan McCafferty

21. “Ever notice how people wait until they’re not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?”

— Megan McCafferty

22. “You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.”

— Megan McCafferty

23. “I’m not in love. It’s a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they’d be called awesomes. “I have an awesome on him.”

— Megan McCafferty

24. “When I’m at school in the city, I don’t feel particularly worldly or wise. It’s only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.”

— Megan McCafferty

25. “The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.”

— Megan McCafferty

26. “I love you. And I want you, too. But. However. Unfortunately...”

— Megan McCafferty

27. “He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.”

— Megan McCafferty

28. “A relationship ends because you’ve outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.”

— Megan McCafferty

29. “I used to think that I wouldn’t change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I’m thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.”

— Megan McCafferty

30. “The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless.”

— Megan McCafferty

31. “Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!”

— Megan McCafferty

32. “I don’t know if she’s making the right choice, but it’s not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that’s what sisters do.”

— Megan McCafferty

33. “I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity.”

— Megan McCafferty

34. “I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.”

— Megan McCafferty

35. “So much of courtship is the unspoken.”

— Megan McCafferty

36. “All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”

— Megan McCafferty

37. “Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me.”

— Megan McCafferty

38. “Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.”

— Megan McCafferty

39. “You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn’t answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.”

— Megan McCafferty

40. “Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.”

— Megan McCafferty

41. “Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches.”

— Megan McCafferty

42. “You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.”

— Megan McCafferty

43. “It’s so much easier to convince yourself you’re madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

— Megan McCafferty

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44. “You gotta take chances in this life or you’re already dead.”

— Megan McCafferty

45. “Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!”

— Megan McCafferty

46. “Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.”

— Megan McCafferty

47. “It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”

— Megan McCafferty

48. “See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It’s geeky cute. It’s Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It’s Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.”

— Megan McCafferty

49. “When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”

— Megan McCafferty

50. “I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn’t enough. It’s the practice of honoring and caring for another that’s noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.”

— Megan McCafferty