Megan McCafferty Quotes & Sayings

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything
a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness
only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted. — Megan McCafferty

Chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty

Synchronicity? Or bullshit? — Megan McCafferty

What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit? — Megan McCafferty

Well, so much for the D'Abruzzi Pussy Legacy. Is nothing sacred? — Megan McCafferty

We're your friends," said Bridget.
"And we're worried about you,"said Pepe.
"I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!"
Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks. — Megan McCafferty

Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure
hearts — Megan McCafferty

Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest! — Megan McCafferty

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time."
I was totally confused. "In the car?"
"In your life," he said. — Megan McCafferty

Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. ( ... ) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a sort of fairy-tale quality to real life. They remind the teller and the listener of the magic that can be found in the mundane if you pay close attention. — Megan McCafferty

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up. — Megan McCafferty

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's.
I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes.
From now on, I live for me. — Megan McCafferty

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

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 I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. — Megan McCafferty

That's when I realized I had gotten too attached to the TV. — Megan McCafferty

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

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to. — Megan McCafferty

I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis. — Megan McCafferty

I've censored my true feelings more and more, replacing them with lies that I know everyone wants to hear. I've felt like I've lost my right to have an opinion, just because I know no one will back me up. But we should all have the courage to speak out about what's bothering us about this school and beyond. Maybe people won't like what you have to say. Perhaps you'll find that you're not alone. — Megan McCafferty

Since I've known you, you've been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I'm in love with. — Megan McCafferty

We just want to be where we're supposed to be. We just want to be with the people we want to be with. I don't think that's asking for too much, ya know what I'm saying? — Megan McCafferty

Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress.
What did I want? A job. A clue. A love.
"Two coffees," Len answered for me.
Coffee would do for now, I guess. — Megan McCafferty

Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart. — Megan McCafferty

You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life. — Megan McCafferty

No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else — Megan McCafferty

But I can't help myself. And there he is, larger than
life on the screen, looking every bit as tortured and handsome
as he did the last time he tried to contact me a few
weeks ago. (Harmony/Jondoe) — Megan McCafferty

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano. — Megan McCafferty

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. — Megan McCafferty

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me — Megan McCafferty

So where should we go at it?' asked Bastian.
'Anywhere you want me,' I murmured, dreamily.
'Pardon?'
'Anywhere,' I said.
'Why don't we start in a familiar place, so we are not nervous our first time?'
I have to remind myself that this is real, and not part of the daydream. He's talking about the Storytelling Project. Not sex. — Megan McCafferty

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 master's is the new bachelor's, 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. — Megan McCafferty

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore. — Megan McCafferty

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

I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ... — Megan McCafferty

The road less traveled will not be smooth — Megan McCafferty

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace. — Megan McCafferty

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left. — Megan McCafferty

I pray that it will be different when they're our age. I pray for a cure to the Virus so they can choose not to share their bodies before they're ready. I pray that they will have the power to choose when and how they will marry, make love, make babies. And I pray that they will not be judged if they choose not to do those things in the "right" order ...
My sister and I close our eyes. We dream of a better world. We imagine what we can - and will - do to make it possible. — Megan McCafferty

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago. — Megan McCafferty

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love. — Megan McCafferty

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape. — Megan McCafferty

Brandi is mean skinny, that kind that doesn't come naturally and makes her face look all hallow and scary. — Megan McCafferty

I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. I have an awesome on him. — Megan McCafferty

The birthrates aren't falling any more drastically than our own. . . ." There's some booing. And an angry voice in the crowd shouts, "Socialist! — Megan McCafferty

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us. — Megan McCafferty

My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie — Megan McCafferty

You have stopped the arrow of time ...
There's no meaning to this rhyme ...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you ... — Megan McCafferty

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow — Megan McCafferty

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead. — Megan McCafferty

Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson - LIVE! - is the only one I continually forget to put into practice? — Megan McCafferty

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you. — Megan McCafferty

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly. — Megan McCafferty

...words can serve as a bomb or a balm..." -Harmony — Megan McCafferty

On my floor, there were fifteen first years and ten sophomores. It was quickly discovered that most of the first years on my floor were still involved in high school relationships. It wasn't difficult to figure out who the ten were, as they (okay, by "they" I really mean "we" but I hate to admit to this type of behavior) often began sentences with the phrase, "My boyfriend/girlfriend . . ." As in "My boyfriend loves Coldplay, too!" Or "My boyfriend has a sweater like that, too!" Or "My boyfriend eats and sleeps and excretes waste, too!" Since no upperclassman would ever, ever, ever put a confining label like "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" on the person she/he was hooking up with on a semiregular basis, it was obvious that anyone making such a bold declaration of commitment was referring to a youthful union forged in the halls of her/his former high school. The — Megan McCafferty

Furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love — Megan McCafferty

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last. — Megan McCafferty

Every day, I live a lie
But not the crocodile kind. — Megan McCafferty

Mine means 'body,' Tanu interjected.
'Wow, that's so eerie,' ALF said. 'Because ... you have a body. — Megan McCafferty

He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws. — Megan McCafferty

My thoughts create my world. — Megan McCafferty

And yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way about him but I didn't care, no I loved him, and wanted him to know it not because I expected him to reciprocate )and yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way about him but I didn't care, no I(even though I really really wanted him to) but because if someone ever loved me in that pure way I would want to know about it — Megan McCafferty

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers — Megan McCafferty

I still believe that one of the greatest advantages of college is that I'm officially allowed not to care about high school anymore — Megan McCafferty

So much of courtship is the unspoken. — Megan McCafferty

I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part. — Megan McCafferty

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you. — Megan McCafferty

In theory, you're supposed to get
everyone's names and become lifelong friends. I literally had contact with half the kids
here last night, but how in hell do they expect me to differentiate one of my butt-to-butt
dancing partners from another? Am I supposed to randomly rub my buttocks up against
people to see if we've bonded booties before? "Yes, the particular musculature of your
ass does feel familiar. 1 remember you now!" Duh. — Megan McCafferty

High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed to steal out of their parents' liquor cabinets. College parties are exhausting in a diametrically opposite way. They are full of smart, funny people who are all used to being the smartest, funniest person in the room, so they spend the whole party talking over one another, overlapping and overtaking the conversation to prove that they are the smartest, funniest person in the room, if not the entire planet. — Megan McCafferty

He's as ambivalent about raising a family as I am, but he'll do it because I asked him to. And until now, I tried convincing myself that it was the praiseworthy decision.
But is it the right choice for the babies? For Ram?
For me?
But I'm not supposed to think about what's best for me, am I? — Megan McCafferty

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

Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity. — Megan McCafferty

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. — Megan McCafferty

I'm living with K-Fed's retarded half brotha/sista. — Megan McCafferty

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start. — Megan McCafferty

I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing. — Megan McCafferty

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

All this girl-on-girl hate is exhausting. Sometimes I wish we could dose on testosterone, punch each other in the face, and get it over with already. — Megan McCafferty

I may feel like a social outcast but im not really one. I think im an outcast inasmuch as I want to be left alone by people I cant stand which isn't really the same thing as true social ostracization now is it? — Megan McCafferty

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

Where are you in your cycle? Oh, WHO CARES? Let's get you two BUMPING right away. We don't want another trimester to go by with a FLAT TUMMY. And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but it would be just BREEDY if you could deliver the goods by next March. — Megan McCafferty

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.) — Megan McCafferty

I find that all my best ideas come to me in my sleep. — Megan McCafferty

I wish our love was right now. — Megan McCafferty

And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression. — Megan McCafferty

I can let my true self shine in front of God. — Megan McCafferty

But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way? — Megan McCafferty

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together. — Megan McCafferty

As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular. — Megan McCafferty

I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn. — Megan McCafferty

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time. — Megan McCafferty

She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia. — Megan McCafferty

It makes me question how many of my memories might be stolen from someone else. — Megan McCafferty

We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin — Megan McCafferty

Words can be used as a bomb or balm. — Megan McCafferty

He makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there ... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling. — Megan McCafferty

Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you. — Megan McCafferty

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 — Megan McCafferty

And so I'll let you go, and let it be. Whatever — Megan McCafferty

There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace. — Megan McCafferty