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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

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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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Bloomington
Indiana
Patricia Cabot
Jenny Carroll
Meggin Patricia Cabot
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oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?
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When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.
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Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.
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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.
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And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.
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Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
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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.
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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.
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There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
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I snatched the paper away from Dopey. Hey, he yelled. I was reading that! Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try, I said.
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He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.
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They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking … well, sleepy.
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...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH.
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And the truth is, I’d felt kind of a thrill about wearing Jason’s Big Boy pants. I was a sick kid, even way back then.
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