M. > M.'s Quotes

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Sanity is not statistical.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Някои неща никога не се променят. Те отдавна са престанали да съществуват като предмети и се извисяват като събития, които никога няма да бъдат изравнени със земята в онази последователност на нещата, наречена Време.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master

“We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified...”
― William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You. Yes You”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Crocodile Lies

I confess, yes, our Fall was all my fault
If you kissed my eyes, your lips would taste salt
But you think my regret is a lie, and the tears I cry
Are the crocodile kind.


The sweat on your upper lip starts to boil
White hot with anger, still convinced I'm your foil
You keep fighting me, though my eyes are free
From crocodile lies.


You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start
I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe
Your own crocodile lies.


The only person stopping you is yourself,
You won't accept that I want no one else,
So until you do, I'll let someone else have you


Every day I live the lie,
But not the crocodile kind

--Marcus Flutie”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“And here's the thing: I like who I am. I like the person I've turned out to be, and I know I'm not done evolving yet.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence.

Or the end of anything at all.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Love," he said, "has the longest arms.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“chromosomal dance
oh, heavenly happenstance
rare creation, you

-Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“I wish our love was right now.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“(Parentheses speak
More than we dare say out loud
Why, oh, why is that?)”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life---which is fundamentally dependent on light---to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.”
― Isaac Asimov, Nightfall

“The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse