01c. 1967 ADCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
02c. 1967 ADCal: “Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours.” Bastard. I didn’t even sing along with the radio. Much.Me: “Yeah. And?” Cal: “Something happened.”Me: “If you’re referring to my driving skills, may I just say I didn’t TOUCH that truck. What you felt was just the wind. We were going pretty fast. And there wasn’t even a scratch. I checked.”Every Boy's Got OneMeg Cabot / quote ↗
03c. 1967 ADCal: “I’m not presuming. I know exactly what you think about me. You think I’m an anal-retentive Armrest Nazi . . . an arrogant Modelizer. You can’t stand the way I talk, any of the subjects I choose to talk about, the imperious manner I order food in restaurants or tell cab drivers how much we owe them. You find my taste in women odious, the fact that I don’t own a television an unforgivable sin, and the fact that I would choose to write a book about Saudi Arabia completely unfathomable. And you’re also totally in love with me. If you weren’t you wouldn’t have pushed me into the pool earlier today when you saw Grazi walk in.”Every Boy's Got OneMeg Cabot / quote ↗
04c. 1967 ADBut mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
05c. 1967 ADWeight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
06c. 1967 ADBecause when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
07c. 1967 ADNo man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can’t have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice—Meg Cabot / quote ↗
08c. 1967 ADOh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?Meg Cabot / quote ↗
09c. 1967 ADBut 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 ↗
10c. 1967 ADI think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
11c. 1967 ADI just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
12c. 1967 ADAnd that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
13c. 1967 ADIt was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
14c. 1967 ADTo achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourselfMeg Cabot / quote ↗
15c. 1967 ADIt's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
17c. 1967 ADMy mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
18c. 1967 ADI usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
19c. 1967 ADOh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
20c. 1967 AD...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]Meg Cabot / quote ↗
21c. 1967 ADI did,” Henric said, with a triumphant look.“Oh,” Meena said, opening the book to the page 74, the one from her dream. “You mean thisprince?” She pointed at the illustration of Lucifer.Henric’s grin faltered slightly. “Precisely.”“He’s not a prince,” Meena said. “As you know perfectly well, he’s a fallen angel. And what wasLucien’s mother?”“A p-princess,” Henric stammered. But there was terror in his eyes.“No,” Lucien said, shaking his head. “She was an angel.”Meena swung around to look at him. Tears glittered in her eyes as she gazed up into his, whichhad gone back to their normal deep brown.“Yes, Lucien,” she said, holding the book open in front of him. “That’s why Henric was trying tokeep this from you. Because he realized it was the one thing that might help you remember what yourmother always taught you. You, of all people, really do have a choice. You can choose to be good . . .because you are part good. No matter how hard you try to be the devil’s son, you’ve still got an angel fora mother.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
22c. 1967 ADHome. Wow. I’m already calling it home.Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share withsomeone you love, I mean?Meg Cabot / quote ↗
23c. 1967 ADI opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.Meg Cabot / quote ↗
24c. 1967 ADIn a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).Meg Cabot / quote ↗
