"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)

"You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie"
— 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)

"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)

"You. Yes You"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"We are perfect in our imperfection."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

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

Whatever"
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"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)

""You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.""
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"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.

-Marcus Flutie"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ..."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me"
— Megan McCafferty (Perfect Fifths: A Novel)

"I wish our love was right now."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SAD
WHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently.

I might even had said yes.

Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?"
— Megan McCafferty

"Don't stop doing what you love.
Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead."
— 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)

"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

"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

""Whatis ur definition of skan?" I ask
"A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.""
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

"What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?"
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

"I’m living with K-Fed’s retarded half brotha/sista."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

"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)

"Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!"
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)