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“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.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Brave #Forever #Judgement
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“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.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Growing Up #Book #Hero
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“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Courage #Business #Black And White
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“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
#Girl #Mistake #Waiting
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“Bite me, Harry Potter.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Potters #Bite Me #Harry Potter
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“Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Eye #Want #Sometimes
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“It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine.”
-- Meg Cabot
#People #Facts #Magazines
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“To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself”
-- Meg Cabot
#Inspirational #Life #Self
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“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.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Kids #Writing #Giving
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“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Art #Drawing #Want
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“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
#Believe #Thinking #Worry
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“I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!”
-- Meg Cabot
#Book #Writing #Fortune Cookie
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“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
#Risk #Want #Who We Are
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“Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Being True
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“The peace sign is with two fingers not one.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Two #Fingers #Peace Sign
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“Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Writing #Editors #Effort
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“I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Mean #Writing #Breathing
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“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Funny #Motivation #Sea
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“And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting....”
-- Meg Cabot
#Interesting #Long #Impossible
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“In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”
-- Meg Cabot
#Pride #Proud #Way
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“One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Kissing #Cheese #Half
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“I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Hurt #Looks #Said
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“In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Art #School #Writing
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“Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Jobs #Yoga #Taken
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“Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Hot #Sometimes #Hotness
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“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
#War #Apologizing #Shut Up
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“When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Outsiders #Reason #Alone Time
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“I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Problem #Feels
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“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”
-- Meg Cabot
#Attitude #Boat #My Attitude
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“...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]”
-- Meg Cabot
#Men #Emotion #Enough
