Gretchen Pelletier > Gretchen's Quotes

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”
― Meg Cabot, Haunted

“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

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

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

“Don't cry."
"How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me."
"Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you."
"I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so... wild."
"How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied. ”
― Meg Cabot, Avalon High

“But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I’m manically depressed because the girl I’ve finally realized I’ve always been in love with, and who I was beginning to think just might love me back, turned around and got herself engaged to my best friend, who, frankly, doesn’t deserve her. Does that answer your question?”
― Meg Cabot

“And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Blink.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.”
― Meg Cabot, Every Boy's Got One

“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”
― Meg Cabot

“But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.”
― Meg Cabot, Pants on Fire

“Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello? Just poof. Crunch. Bye.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting....”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“No Hello.
No Hi, Pierce. Nice right hook you have there.
No It's lovely to see you. Sorry about your counselor being killed last night. Yes, I see your grandmother is a Fury even though I told you none was after you. I guess I was wrong about that.
Just Let's go.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.”
― Meg Cabot

“He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“I 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, How to Be Popular

“You just said you were sorry."

...

"I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“I'll tell you what you can do," he said, stopping abruptly. Now he did reach out to grip both my shoulders. But still not to kiss me. Only so he could wheel me around to glare at me some more. "You can leave me alone."
Tears sprang once more into my eyes. That's what he wanted from me? For me to stay away from him?
This had turned into a greater disaster than when I'd died. And I was still breathing, so that was say something.
"I'd like to," I said. All I could hear besides the deep, disapproving timbre of his voice was the drum of my heartbeat in my ears. Stupid girl. Stupid girl. Stupid girl, my heart seemed to be saying. "Except every time I try, you show back up, and act such a... such a..."
"Such a what?" he demanded. He seemed to be practically daring me to say.
Don't, the voice of my mother warned inside my head. Don't say it.
"Jerk.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?”
― Meg Cabot, Avalon High

“Kings don't sneak.”
― Meg Cabot, Avalon High

“Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair

I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress?”
― Meg Cabot, Underworld

“I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.”
― Meg Cabot, Pants on Fire

“It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically.

"Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'"

"That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.”
― Meg Cabot, How to Be Popular

“So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs.
Uncle Mitch, what's carbs?
email to Uncle Mitch from Haily and Brittany”
― Meg Cabot, Boy Meets Girl