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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

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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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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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Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?
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Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.
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Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.
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Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.
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Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
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I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.
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It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.
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We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.
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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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It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. “…at least until I found you.
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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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When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.
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