Megan McCafferty > Quotes

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up.
Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.”
I was totally confused. “In the car?”
“In your life,” he said.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“We
are Adam and Eve
born out of chaos called
creation
Ribbing me gave you life
yet you forget
there will always be
a part of me in you
yes
I taunted and tempted
you
with my forbidden fruit
does that make
me
the serpent too?
Believe what you will
but if I am exiled
alone
I know we will be
together again someday
naked
without shame
in paradise
My thanks to you
for being in on my
sin”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence.

Or the end of anything at all.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“You. Yes You”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SAD
WHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Right now I feel guilty to be alive. Why? Because I’m wasting it. I’ve been given this life and all I do is mope it away.
What’s worse is, I am totally aware of how ridiculous I am. It would be a lot easier if I believed I was the center of the universe, because then I wouldn’t know any better NOT to make a big deal out of everything. I know how small my problems are, yet that doesn’t stop me from obsessing about them.
I have to stop doing this.
How do other people get happy? I look at people laughing and smiling and enjoying themselves and try to get inside their heads. How do Bridget, Manda, and Sara do it? Or Pepe? Or EVERYONE but me?
Why does everything I see bother me? Why can’t I just get over these daily wrongdoings? Why can’t I just move on and make the best of what I’ve got?
I wish I knew.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“I wish our love was right now.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“The stories teach them valuable life lessons. That good things happen to bad people. That it’s possible to make a bad situation even worse if you don’t think it through. That parents are clueless except when they’re not. That it’s good to try new things even when a new thing is kind of disgusting, because new experiences make you a well-rounded person. That art can be transcendent. That lust is all-powerful, that drugs are fun, and that not everyone who does them is a loser. That losing people is part of life. That where comedy goes, tragedy isn’t far behind. That everyone has issues with their bodies, but some take it too far, almost to death. That fear can be exhilarating. That boys are assholes. That it’s important to look forward and never look back…”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. ”
― Megan McCafferty

“And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.

Whatever”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“Crocodile Lies

I confess, yes, our Fall was all my fault
If you kissed my eyes, your lips would taste salt
But you think my regret is a lie, and the tears I cry
Are the crocodile kind.


The sweat on your upper lip starts to boil
White hot with anger, still convinced I'm your foil
You keep fighting me, though my eyes are free
From crocodile lies.


You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start
I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe
Your own crocodile lies.


The only person stopping you is yourself,
You won't accept that I want no one else,
So until you do, I'll let someone else have you


Every day I live the lie,
But not the crocodile kind

--Marcus Flutie”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings