Second Helpings Quotes

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

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

“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

“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

“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

“there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“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, Second Helpings

“Every day, I live a lie
But not the crocodile kind.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Call me Mac," he said.
Mackadocious is more like it.
"For the next month, I will be your writing instructor..."
Lip Macking Good.
"It was Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who said, 'Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within...'"
Big Mac Attack.
"Here, in the next five weeks, I hope you do more revealing than concealing..."
Oh, I'll reveal more than that if you want me to, Mac Daddy.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Manda and Sara are annoying because their whole belief system is in opposition to my own. They live by a Grand Theft Auto morality, by which lying, whoring, and stealing scores innumerable points.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings