“IN THE SECOND GRADE, WHEN YOU ARE A BOY WHO LIKES A GIRL, YOU GIVE HER YOUR BEST POKEMON CARD. OR YOU PULL HER HAIR. NOT HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE HER CRY, THOUGH.
OR YOU CAN ASK TO HER ROLLERSKATE BACKWARDS WITH YOU, AND THEN HOLD HER HAND SO SHE DOESN'T FALL DOWN.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“I can't join a gym! I'm depressed, not suicidal!”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Honey, You ain't a hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“All men are pigs and I hope they die and monkeys take over, then things would be way better.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Am I really not worth shaving for?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“You're like the little mentally retarded sister I never had”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!!”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“I must seem like the biggest nagging idiot in the world!”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“It's a natural progress, but still. That thing about the cow is so stupid. Do I look like a cow to you?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Flinging dog drool on innocent passersby?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“I am willing to overlook your intense personal insecurities for the moment in order to inform you that I will not be able to attend the dedication tomorrow night, as I have alternate plans.
I will elaborate no more, for fear of further fraternal wrath.
I like that, further fraternal wrath. Maybe I’ll put that in my novel.
Fraternally yours, your faithful brother,
John”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“To: Nadine Wilcock
From: George Sanchez
Subject: Where the hell
is Fuller? She better not be in the ladies’. I swear to God, I’m beginning to think there’s somebody in there serving lattes, you all spend so much time locked in those damned stalls….”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Exit our Miss Mel. Exit Friend Tim. When I glanced over my shoulder, Max Friedlander had disappeared—a remarkable feat, considering that there was nowhere on that side of the hole for him to go except into the Chronicle building.
But he can’t have gone in there. His soul would have been ripped instantly from his body while demons sucked out his life force.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“To: Mel Fuller
From: Nadine Wilcock
Subject: Go take a Midol…”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“You don’t have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Dolly, I swear to God, if you tell one more person that I saw Max Friedlander naked I will personally come over there and put a stake through your heart, which I hear is the only way to stop someone like you.
He was not NAKED, okay? He was fully clothed. FULLY CLOTHED AT ALL TIMES.
Well, except for his forearms. But that’s all I saw, I swear it.
So, stop telling people otherwise!!!”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Okay, the cops are gone. I explained about my mother and her obsession with the transvestite killer. They didn’t even get that mad.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“It’s only until Mrs. Friedlander gets better
And when is THAT going to be? Earth to Mel. Come in, Mel. The woman is in a COMA. Okay? She is COMATOSE. I think some alternative arrangements for the woman’s pets need to be made. You are a DOORMAT. A COMATOSE woman is using you as a DOORMAT.
The woman has to have some relatives, Mel. FIND THEM.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“To: Mel Fuller
From: jerrylives@freemail.com
Subject: Dinner
You got it.
I’ll make reservations for eight. I hope you know what you’re doing, however, letting me choose the restaurant. I am very partial to entrails, you know.
John
To: jerrylives@freemail.com
From: Mel Fuller
Subject: I don’t believe you
You’re just trying to scare me.
I grew up on a farm. We had entrails on toast every morning for breakfast.
Mel
To: Mel Fuller
From: jerrylives@freemail.com
Subject: Now you’re
scaring me.
See you at six.
John”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
“Whatever it is, I cannot seem to pull off something as simple as dinner between the two of us. As you know, my first attempt ended with us eating pizza standing up (and her paying for her own slice).
My second attempt was even worse: We spent most of the evening in an animal hospital. And then I very suavely added insult to injury by sexually harassing her on Max Friedlander’s aunt’s couch. She fled, in romance-novel vernacular, like a startled fawn. As well she should have: I’m sure I must have seemed like a teenager in postprom heat.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from The Boy Next Door
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“WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away
Till the morning appears in the skies.
No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all cover’d with sheep.
Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed.’
The little ones leaped and shouted and laugh’d
And all the hills echoed.
- "Nurse’s Song”
― William Blake, quote from The Complete Poems
“Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith.”
― Sara Zarr, quote from Once Was Lost
“We can end this before anyone gets hurt." William held his hands out to sides as if to show her he was unarmed. "You don't want to hurt people, do you? You will if you don't come away with me. You know that."
"I'm not bad," Daisha whispered.
"I believe you." He held out a hand to her. He curled his fingers toward him in a beckoning gesture. "You can do the right thing here. Just come with me. We'll go meet some people who can help us."
"Her. The new Graveminder."
"No, not her. You and I can fix this all on our own.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Graveminder
“I know he's not stupid," Julian whispered in a stricken voice. "He's not...he's not one of us, just like you said. he's the kind of man who if you gave him a gun and two choices--shoot one of your dogs or shoot yourself in the head--he'd put the gun to his ear and pull the trigger."
"Hell, Jules, you'd do the same thing if someone did that to your and your goddamned cats," Blake said in amusement.
"No," Julian murmured with a shake of his head. "No there's a third option. People like us, we're third-option people. We take the gun, stuff it in the person's mouth, and eliminate the problem. Walk off into the sunset with our kitty.”
― Madeleine Urban, quote from Warrior's Cross
“Seriously, I ‘ve got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils." ~ Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
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