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Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name. She has written and published over 50 books, and is best known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Meg's books have been the recipients of numerous awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, and many others. She has had numerous no. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Cabot has more than 25 million copies of her books—children's, young adult, and adult—in print worldwide.

✵ 1. February 1967  •  Other names Patricia Cabot, Jenny Carroll, مق کابوت, മെഗ് കബോട്ട്
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Meg Cabot Quotes

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

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on… Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

“great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.”

Meg Cabot book Being Nikki

Source: Being Nikki

“How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

“I 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

“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

Source: Abandon

“What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

“Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?”

Meg Cabot

Source: Princess in Love

“Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too”

Meg Cabot

“So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink”

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!”

Meg Cabot

Source: Big Boned

“I've never even been to Long Island”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

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

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?”

Meg Cabot book Avalon High

Source: Avalon High

“Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.”

Meg Cabot book Being Nikki

Source: Being Nikki

“Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?"
"Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?"
Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.”

Meg Cabot book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out

“I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Insatiable

“You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

“Looks can be deceiving.”

Meg Cabot book Airhead

Source: Airhead

“Lana says J. P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana”

Meg Cabot

Source: Forever Princess

“One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.”

Meg Cabot

“Have you tried this shrimp? It's freaking amazing.

Would you get away from me? I hate you.

You're so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Runaway

“If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Princess in Love

“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Runaway

“This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother
was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.”

Meg Cabot book Ninth Key

Source: Ninth Key

“If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Runaway

“[…] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Forever Princess

“There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing, from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107”

Meg Cabot

Source: When Lightning Strikes

“Despite all evidence to the contrary, Grandmère believes that Ron Weasley, not Voldemort, is the villain of the Harry Potter series.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Royal Wedding

“I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.”

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Princess in Waiting

“… it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.'
'hello. Dave was BRITISH.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Every Boy's Got One

“I can't kill someone!"
"You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher."
"But that was family! And I didn't kill him.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Awaken

“I snatched the paper away from Dopey.
"Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!"
"Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.”

Meg Cabot book Darkest Hour

Source: Darkest Hour

“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

Meg Cabot

Source: Abandon

“And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.”

Meg Cabot book Ninth Key

Source: Ninth Key

“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien
said mildly, “that we can even have a future”

Meg Cabot

Source: Insatiable

“I like seals.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx