“Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider...only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers.'
No one stirred. Not even Christopher, who actually has a thing for Lara Croft.
'I know what you're thinking,' I went on. 'Glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers are so last year. But I think they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole ensemble. It's true, short-shorts are uncomfortable under jeans and hard to get off in the ladies' room, but they make the twin thigh-holsters in which I hold my high-caliber pistols so easy to get to....'
The oven timer dinged.
'Thank you, Em,' Mr. Greer said, yawning. 'That was very persuasive.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Airhead
“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, quote from Airhead
“Straight guys only feel three ways about girls . . . First, either they love you, and they show it by writing a song about you, like Gabriel, and asking you out, and everything is nice and fun like it should be. Second, they love you, but they’re scared of their passion for you because it’s so strong, like your boy Christopher, so they stuff it way, way down and ignore you, or do stupid things like make fun of you because they don’t know how to express it any other way, because they’re immature little babies and are too shy to, say, write a song about you. Or third, there’s something wrong with them, and they start out nice and loving and then turn around and do stupid things like sleep with other girls behind your back, like Justin Bay. But we’ll never figure out what went wrong with them, and neither will they, so it’s not worth thinking about. Okay? That’s it. The end.”
Lulu Collins”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Airhead
“However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Airhead
“I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Airhead
“every heterosexual boy—and probably some gay ones, too, so look out, because that’s just going to end in disaster—you ever meet is going to fall madly in love with you. He may not admit it, but it’s true. So you have to take responsibility for that and not do things to encourage him—unless, of course, you want him to fall in love with you. Because it’s cruel to play with boys’ emotions in that way, because no matter what anyone else says, men are the weaker sex.’ Didn’t your mother tell you that?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Airhead
Meg Cabot
Born place: in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States
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“Призраки, гигантские, бесформенные, свидетельствующие о себе разве что смертью, голодом и разрухой - невидимые участники тайных заседаний, алчной сворой теснящиеся вокруг крытых зеленым сукном столов, за которыми циничные честолюбивые старцы решают судьбы мира, они собрали свой страшный многомиллионный урожай и до поры до времени впали в спячку; но сейчас проснулся самый страшный из всех фантомов - уже давно тлетворный дух загнивающей культуры щекотал его ноздри, - и поднял из бездны личину Медузы, и рассмеялся в лицо одураченному человечеству, ибо то, что люди принимали за прогресс, ради чего мучились, страдали и приносили неисчислимые жертвы, оказалось огромным пыточным колесом, которое эти слепцы вращали в безумной надежде снискать для грядущих поколений свободу и которое они теперь, несмотря на все свои "знания", на веки вечные обречены приводить в движение.”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Golem
“Does it matter? He’s going to leave her and she knows it. Do you know what that does to our family? What it’s like to live in that?”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Family
“A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Home isn’t a place.
Home is anywhere, just as long as the people you love are there.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Renegade
“Before he said I was too old for stories.” “A person’s never too old for stories, Bill. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” “Do you say so?” “I do.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Wind Through the Keyhole
Eleanor & Park
Go Ask Alice
The Graveyard Book
Mansfield Park
Tuck Everlasting
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