50 Meg Cabot Quotes That Teach Us A Real Princess Never Settles

“Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look… and apparently, where NOT to look.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“When you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“No one has ever died of embarrassment--never, not once in the whole history of time.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

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

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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?”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“As you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends--hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life—those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“I believe what you put into the universe comes back at you times three, which is why I always try only to put good things, not horrible skinny bitch things, into the universe.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“Every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“No one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Looks can be deceiving.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com