“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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Born place: in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States
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“Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time. It is a phenomenon with roots deeper than our money system, for it depends on the prior quantification of time. An animal or a child has “all the time in the world.” The same was apparently true for Stone Age peoples, who usually had very loose concepts of time and rarely were in a hurry. Primitive languages often lacked tenses, and sometimes lacked even words for “yesterday” or “tomorrow.” The comparative nonchalance primitive people had toward time is still apparent today in rural, more traditional parts of the world. Life moves faster in the big city, where we are always in a hurry because time is scarce. But in the past, we experienced time as abundant. The more monetized society is, the more anxious and hurried its citizens. In parts of the world that are still somewhat outside the money economy, where subsistence farming still exists and where neighbors help each other, the pace of life is slower, less hurried. In rural Mexico, everything is done mañana. A Ladakhi peasant woman interviewed in Helena Norberg-Hodge’s film Ancient Futures sums it all up in describing her city-dwelling sister: “She has a rice cooker, a car, a telephone—all kinds of time-saving devices. Yet when I visit her, she is always so busy we barely have time to talk.” For the animal, child, or hunter-gatherer, time is essentially infinite. Today its monetization has subjected it, like the rest, to scarcity. Time is life. When we experience time as scarce, we experience life as short and poor. If you were born before adult schedules invaded childhood and children were rushed around from activity to activity, then perhaps you still remember the subjective eternity of childhood, the afternoons that stretched on forever, the timeless freedom of life before the tyranny of calendar and clocks. “Clocks,” writes John Zerzan, “make time scarce and life short.” Once quantified, time too could be bought and sold, and the scarcity of all money-linked commodities afflicted time as well. “Time is money,” the saying goes, an identity confirmed by the metaphor “I can’t afford the time.” If the material world”
― Charles Eisenstein, quote from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
“What a grand joke the world was. You spend years fretting and plotting, only to find, in the end, that everything was going to be just fine, with or without you.”
― Jennifer Bernard, quote from The Fireman Who Loved Me
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Tyler?” Brayden asked, and Tyler shook his head to clear thoughts that were going way too fast for him. “Sorry, yes, we’ll just deal with my issues now,” Tyler finally answered. “But, whatever it is that’s bothering you, I hope you know I’ll help if you need it.” “I don’t know if I like this new caring-brother thing you’re doing.” “Hey, I’ve always been caring, just a bit of an ass at times.” “At times?” Brayden smiled.”
― Carrie Ann Ryan, quote from Finding Abigail
“But I know he'll call, no matter what shape he's in. Even when I hate him, I love him. Even when he stops calling, I hear his voice. Will is my only brother. Without each other - without the invisible thread that binds us together, no matter how weak or frayed it becomes - we are simply drifting, all alone, without anything like a compass to know where we're headed.”
― quote from Breathless
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