Meg Cabot Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

[...] 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.

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.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

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

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.

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.

Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.

You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?

My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done