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“He says we should take it easy and that maybe he overreacted a bit."

Dave said, "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland.”
― Louise Rennison, Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

“Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.”
― Meg Cabot

“My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”
― Meg Cabot, Darkest Hour

“You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”
― Meg Cabot

“The peace sign is with two fingers not one.”
― Meg Cabot, Sanctuary

“Melody Malone is the owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency in Manhattan. She is possibly married but lives alone usually, and is older than both her parents. Sometimes. Why not visit her website? Ah – probably because the internet hasn’t been invented yet. Sorry, Sweetie.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“I am Melody Malone, with ice in my heart and a kiss on my lips. In the city that never sleeps and should never blink, mysteries are my business.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“I sat with my feet up on my desk and started to make a mental list of the people who’d want me dead. Once I got to fifty, I decided this wasn’t helping.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“It was the sort of day when deciding what to wear is like planning a military operation. Believe me – I have considerable experience of both.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“The secret is not just to be stunning, which I find comes rather easily, to be honest. The tricky thing is getting exactly the right level of stun for the occasion.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“Complicated” is my middle name.’ Actually, it’s not my middle name – any more than Malone is my last name. Whether Melody is really my first name is, well, complicated.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“So, Belle, what's new today?"

Dad," I said, grasping his hands and looking directly into his eyes. "I'm in the deepest love that has ever occurred in the history of the world."

Gosh, Belle. When someone asks you 'What's new?' the correct answer is 'Not much'. Besides, isn't it a little soon to cut yourself off from the rest of your peers, depending on a boyfriend to satisfy your social needs as opposed to making friends? Imagine what would happen if something forced that boy to leave! I'm imagining pages and pages would happen - with nothing but the names of the months on them.”
― Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“Just a quick glimpse to assure myself that everything was buttoned and unbuttoned in the best places and pointing in the right direction.”
― Melody Malone, The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

“I typed in a single word: Vampre. Google asked, 'Did you mean vampire?' I said, 'Yes.”
― Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him -- which I assumed was wildly out of his control -- that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he has kissed me.”
― Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book, I was like, whoa! Word party!”
― The Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“After dinner, Edwart took me upstairs to see his room. At the top of the stairs was a giant wooden cross.

"Ironic, huh?" Edwart said.

"Why?" I asked with trepidation, imagining that, at any second, Edwart would turn into dust, which I would then sweep up and disperse over my furniture so he would always be with me.

"Because we're Jewish, of course--nonpracticing.”
― The Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight

“Muurp," muurped Edwart.”
― Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“Suddenly I blurted out. "I love you more than everything in the entire galaxy combined into one potent, delicious piece of gum!”
― Harvard Lampoon

“Germs contagious, contagious alert!
But Edwart and Purell are stronger than dirt!”
― Harvard Lampoon, Nightlight: A Parody

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”
― Louise Rennison , Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”
― Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“Oh Blimey O‘Reilly's pantyhose...what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on.
What light doth through yonder window break?
It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!”
― Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”
― Louise Rennison, Stop in the Name of Pants!

“He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?'
'Look, shut up, people might hear.'
'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?”
― Louise Rennison, Stop in the Name of Pants!

“Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.”
― Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel