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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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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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Bloomington
Indiana
Patricia Cabot
Jenny Carroll
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I've only been gone a week, I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.
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Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.
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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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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.
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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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I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.
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But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.
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I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
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I've never even been to Long Island
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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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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.
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What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.
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Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
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Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
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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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Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
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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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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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You didn't, John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, even hit your head this time.
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There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.
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