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if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

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
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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.
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They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.
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No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.
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great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.
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We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
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The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
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Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
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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.
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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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Adam gave me a scandalized look. Fraternizing with the enemy! he cried. For shame, wench!
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Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise.
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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.
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It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.
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They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!
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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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...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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oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?
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What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
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And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
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