Quotes by Megan McCafferty

Its so much easier to convince yourself youre madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

You gotta take chances in this life or youre alreadydead.

IVE LEARNED THAT YOU CANT CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF.

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SADWHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

I believe that what we get out of life is what weve set ourselves up to get, so theres no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices weve made along the way, which is why its imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Dont let anyone elses noise drown it out.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a masters is the new bachelors, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Im sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I dont even like the game very much, I think its silly, but I so miss physical activity that Id be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

Were all people, he said simply. It doesnt matter if youre two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that Im in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. Im a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

(Parentheses speakMore than we dare say out loudWhy, oh, why is that?)

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music hes listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when Im not there, which is almost all the time.

And now, as Im lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after wed both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldnt stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within.Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

As much as I dont care about those things, I think its human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

It’s not my fault that these are the problems I’ve been put on this earth to deal with, right? They’re petty, they piss me off, and they’re all mine

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in Seventeen magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.