110+ Meg Cabot Quotes On Friendship, Education And Fire

Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults. She is best known for her works The Princess Diaries and The Mediator series. Her books have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been published in over 38 countries. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Meg Cabot on love, friendship, education.

Top 10 Meg Cabot Quotes

1. „Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.
2. Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
3. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
4. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
5. What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
6. Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.
7. Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.
8. We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.
9. One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.
10. Bite me, Harry Potter.

Meg Cabot Image Quotes

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Short Quotes

• When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
• Looks can be deceiving.
• My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
• The peace sign is with two fingers not one.
• I needed another soda. I’d only had six since breakfast.
• hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.
• faint heart never won fair lady
• I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
• Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.
• But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

Meg Cabot Quotes About Love

Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that. — Meg Cabot

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit... — Meg Cabot

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love? — Meg Cabot

How to be the best that you can be — Meg Cabot

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

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there. — Meg Cabot

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks — Meg Cabot

The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE. — Meg Cabot

I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news. — Meg Cabot

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you? — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Quotes About Life

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself — Meg Cabot

Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...." Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy. — Meg Cabot

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame. — Meg Cabot

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood. — Meg Cabot

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love. — Meg Cabot

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life! — Meg Cabot

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad. — Meg Cabot

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose. — Meg Cabot

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. — Meg Cabot

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves. — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Quotes About Story

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. — Meg Cabot

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born! — Meg Cabot

My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. — Meg Cabot

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. — Meg Cabot

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either. — Meg Cabot

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. — Meg Cabot

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. — Meg Cabot

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Quotes About Queen

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. — Meg Cabot

Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious! — Meg Cabot

I look around for a conveniently loaded pistol.Sadly, there doesn't seem to be one available, so I have no choice but to answer the question. - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Quotes About People

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. — Meg Cabot

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. — Meg Cabot

I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn’t ever give you more than you can handle, but I’m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much! — Meg Cabot

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures. — Meg Cabot

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves. — Meg Cabot

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you. — Meg Cabot

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves. — Meg Cabot

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it. — Meg Cabot

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done — Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Famous Quotes And Sayings

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. — Meg Cabot

A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. — Meg Cabot

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing. — Meg Cabot

Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise. — Meg Cabot

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer! — Meg Cabot

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there! — Meg Cabot

My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him. — Meg Cabot

I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you. — Meg Cabot

One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing. — Meg Cabot

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her). — Meg Cabot

If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore. — Meg Cabot

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

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

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. — Meg Cabot

It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too loudly between classes. No novice has ever been created that could keep Gina quiet, however. — Meg Cabot

And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey. — Meg Cabot

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. — Meg Cabot

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

But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head. — Meg Cabot

Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch. — Meg Cabot

I can't kill someone!" "You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher." "But that was family! And I didn't kill him. — Meg Cabot

Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so dry. "Sometimes." "How about now?" he asked. And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: "Susannah. Susannah... — Meg Cabot

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best. — Meg Cabot

Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way. — Meg Cabot

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically. — Meg Cabot

I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back. — Meg Cabot

Look, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing , right? Summer fling at the resort, only with the roles reversed: you know, the poor working girl and the rich doctor's son, nobody puts Baby in the corner, blah blah blah. That kind of thing. — Meg Cabot

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish — Meg Cabot

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever. — Meg Cabot

anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming — Meg Cabot

This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said. — Meg Cabot

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon — Meg Cabot

This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children." he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?""If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either — Meg Cabot

I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night. Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx. — Meg Cabot

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. — Meg Cabot

I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing. — Meg Cabot

I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107 — Meg Cabot

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

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

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy. — Meg Cabot

Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?" "Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?" Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up. — Meg Cabot

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys. — Meg Cabot

Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens. — Meg Cabot

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard. — Meg Cabot

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face. — Meg Cabot

even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart. — Meg Cabot

You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you. — Meg Cabot

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. — Meg Cabot

Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake. — Meg Cabot

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

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right? — Meg Cabot

I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you. — Meg Cabot

I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of the lobby beacuse Sarah's hair is flying up in my face, blocking my view. I want justice!" she wails. Well, we'll get you some of that too." Magda has appeared from out of nowhere. "Maybe there's some in the freezer. — Meg Cabot

It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine. — Meg Cabot

Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love. "Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped. — Meg Cabot

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives? — Meg Cabot

Who-who are you?" Seth asked, hesitantly."Wh-what do you want?" How else was was I supposed to reply? The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them.I mean, I'd only seen the movie like seventeen times. "I'm Luke Skywalker," I said. "I'm here to rescue you. — Meg Cabot

Me: “Ngh” Cal: “Well put.” ...... Every Boy's Got One — Meg Cabot

She'd realize Steve was her soul mate and that she would never love anyone as much as she loved him. — Meg Cabot

It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff. — Meg Cabot

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters. — Meg Cabot

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen. — Meg Cabot

...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. — Meg Cabot

Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life. — Meg Cabot

Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear. — Meg Cabot

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot. — Meg Cabot

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense. — Meg Cabot

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans? — Meg Cabot

But I’m living proof you don’t have to spend a lot in order to look great. — Meg Cabot

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. — Meg Cabot

Life Lessons by Meg Cabot

1. Meg Cabot's books often focus on the importance of being true to yourself and standing up for what you believe in.
2. She also encourages readers to take risks and embrace change, as it can often lead to growth and a better understanding of yourself.
3. Lastly, her works emphasize the importance of friendship and how it can help you through difficult times.