“Lilly: Mia, when I recognize a human soul crying out for self-actualization, I am powerless to stop myself. I must do what I can to see that that person’s dream is realized.
[Gee, I haven’t noticed Lilly doing all that much to help me realize my dream of
French-kissing her brother. But on the other hand, I have not exactly made that dream known to her.]”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“And you know what? Maybe Michael didn’t write those notes. And maybe he doesn’t
think I’m the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that’s all that matters to me.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“And I think
What does it matter
that it is not a linear equation if any variable is raised to a power?
We’re all just going to die anyway.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“It’s sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That’s all I have to say.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“Get to see how he treats his mother/sister/housekeeper (critical clues as to how he will treat any prospective girlfriend).”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“When Louie is upset with us for, say, forgetting to feed him, he eats any socks he might find lying around.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“Today Rommel had on a mink bolero jacket. I am not even joking. It was dyed lavender to match the one slung across Grandmère’s shoulders.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“It’s like I’ve struck a blow for dweebs everywhere, or something.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
“Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess in the Spotlight
Meg Cabot
Born place: in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States
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“His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.”
― Colson Whitehead, quote from Apex Hides the Hurt
“The Layers
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.”
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.”
― Stanley Kunitz, quote from The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz
“After killing the dancer, he dismembered her body, boiled her head in a kitchen pot, and placed bits of her flesh in buckets he then kept in storage facilities. Having cooked her flesh, he then, in an act of grotesque generosity, dispensed some to the homeless in his neighborhood as "meat.”
― quote from The Anatomy of Evil
“Tja, angefangen hat das alles, als ich eines Tages darauf gekommen bin, dass der Hausmeister meiner Highschool der Würgengel war …”
― Matt Ruff, quote from Bad Monkeys
“Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper."
"You mean Dr. Pepper?"
"For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from The Back Door of Midnight
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