“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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“First, I need to convince you that human progress has, on balance, been a good thing, and that, despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
“The pineal gland is supposed to secrete an oil, which is called resin, the life of the pine tree. This word [resin] is supposed to be involved in the origin of the Rosicrucians, who were working with the secretions of the pineal gland and seeking to open the eye single; for it is said in scripture: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be filled with light.” . . . [The”
― David Wilcock, quote from The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
“straight shot. It’ll come via a circuitous route. Not just to delay the discovery but to confound your tracking. We sincerely hope you get it, this message from an aborted being that managed to revive and sustain itself, even with so much going against it. We live and we are on the cusp of prospering. Our planet holds secrets that could transform entire worlds into organized, precious metals—a treasure you will never claim.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home
“Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.”
― quote from Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
“History is not just about the analysis of evidence, unrolling vellum documents or answering exam papers. It is not about judging the dead. It is about understanding the meaning of the past—to realize the whole evolving human story over centuries, not just our own lifetimes.”
― Ian Mortimer, quote from The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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