Megan McCafferty Quotes - Page 4

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• That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

  Megan McCafferty

  Helping Others, Helping

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1076, Crown

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• The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

  Megan McCafferty

  Who We Are, Tales

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.130, Broadway Books

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• I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

  Megan McCafferty

  Jobs, Trying, Adults

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• It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.

  Megan McCafferty

  Wish, Way, Kind

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.262, Crown

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• I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

  Megan McCafferty

  Hate, Insensitivity, Humans

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1108, Crown

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• Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

  Megan McCafferty

  Bombs, Used

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• The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

  Megan McCafferty

  Real, Important, World

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.811, Crown

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Life Is

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.793, Crown

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• 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

  Saying Goodbye, Self, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.349, Broadway Books

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• What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hands, Skins, Curls

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.319, Broadway Books

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• The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

  Megan McCafferty

  Minutes, Correspondence, No Point

  Megan McCafferty (2002). “Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Cute, Ideas, Rivers

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.434, Crown

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• You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Falling In Love, Love You, Artist

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1018, Crown

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• So much of courtship is the unspoken.

  Megan McCafferty

  Courtship, Unspoken

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.167, Broadway Books

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• ...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

  Megan McCafferty

  Falling In Love, Grasping, Equilibrium

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.322, Broadway Books

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• Love," he said, "has the longest arms.

  Megan McCafferty

  Arms, Said

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.229, Broadway Books

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• But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

  Megan McCafferty

  Past, Talking, Matter

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.556, Crown

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• I can let my true self shine in front of God.

  Megan McCafferty

  Self, Shining, Fronts

  Megan McCafferty (2011). “Bumped”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

  Megan McCafferty

  Prayer, Long, Waiting

  Megan McCafferty (2011). “Bumped”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.

  Megan McCafferty

  Merry Christmas, Cards, Mia

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.388, Crown

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• 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

  Practice, Class, Track

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.77, Crown

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• When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

  Megan McCafferty

  Important, Too Much, Trash

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.17, Crown

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• Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?

  Megan McCafferty

  Nice, People, Waiting

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.790, Crown

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