“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, quote from Princess Mia
“Do one thing every day that frightens you,” Princess Mia advised her audience. “And never think that you can’t make a difference. Even if you’re only sixteen, and everyone is telling you that you’re just a silly teenage girl—don’t let them push you away. Remember one other thing Eleanor Roosevelt said: ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.’ You are capable of great things—never let anyone try to tell you that just because you’ve only been a princess for twelve days, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess Mia
“The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess Mia
“But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don’t want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn’t “feminine.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess Mia
“Oh my God. Oh my God, J.P. is in love with me. And we blew up the school.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess Mia
“Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess Mia
Meg Cabot
Born place: in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States
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“To a Young Poet
Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.
No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, quote from Collected Poems
“Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt.”
― Alan Bradley, quote from I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Last Dragonslayer
“Инамура-сан дори не подозираше, че Тикако иска да я покаже на Кикудзи. Съвсем спокойно тя му приготви чая и без всякакво смущение подаде чашката на Кикудзи. След като отпи от нея, той започна да й се любува. Това беше черна чашка. От едната й страна имаше ивица бяла глазура, върху която с черно бе нарисувано стръкче от папрат.
— Би трябвало да я помните — каза Тикако.
— Да, да — замислено отговори Кикудзи и отпусна ръката, в която държеше чашката.
— Това стръкче папрат създава усещането за планинска местност. Чашката е подходяща за чайна церемония в началото на пролетта и баща ви обичаше да пие от нея през същия сезон. Въпреки че вече е малко късно за нея, предлагам ви я, защото си помислих, че ще ви бъде приятно да я подържите в ръце.
— Баща ми твърде кратко време е притежавал тази чашка. Тя си има своя история и ако не се лъжа, тя е преминала дълъг път — от майстора Рикю, епоха Момояма, за да стигне до нас. В продължение на няколко столетия тя е била съхранявана от много ценители на чайната церемония и е била предавана следващите поколения. Така че тук баща ми стои по-настрана — каза Кикудзи, стараейки се да забрави съдбите, които се преплитаха около тази чашка.
От господин Оота чашката е станала собственост на вдовицата му, след това е била подарена на бащата на Кикудзи, който от своя страна я подарил на Тикако. И сега от четиримата, двамата мъже са починали, а двете жени присъствуват тук на чайната церемония. Само по себе си това вече е достатъчно съдбата на тази чашка да бъде считана за необикновена. А тук на чайната церемония колко много други момински ръце и устни са се докосвали до тъмната й повърхност.
— Аз също с удоволствие бих пила от тази чашка. По-рано пиех от друга — неочаквано за всички каза госпожа Оота.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from Thousand Cranes
“When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Murder on the Links
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