Princess in Waiting Quotes

“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Hello," Lilly said."Movie. Of your life.You were portrayed as shy and awkward."
"I am shy and awkward," I reminded her.
"They made your grandmother all kindly and sympathetic to your plight," Lilly said."It was the grossest mischaracterization I've seen since Shakespeare in Love tried to pass off the Bard as a hottie with a six-pack and a full set of teeth.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Really,Mia,"she said. "You know I don't like to contradict your grandmother ..."
This was the biggest lie I'd heard since the Prince of Liechtenstein told me I waltzed divinely,but I let it slide,on account of Mom's condition.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“But a sweater? I mean,that is so unromantic.It is the kind of thing I would get my dad — if he wasn't so in need of anger-management manuals,which is what I got for him for Christmas.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Men enjoy the hunt, you see, and once their quarry has been taken, they tend to lose all interest.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Because when it comes to our men, we Renaldo women don't mess around. We play for keeps. And we have the battle scars to prove it.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl?
Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy grandma,a homeless,Speedo-wearing prince and a freakish,hairless miniature poodle?”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Maybe that’s my secret talent. I have the amazing ability to resemble a snowdrop. My parents must be so proud.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“I interrupted Grandmère to inform her that I will be fifteen in four months, and also that Juliet was fourteen when she married Romeo. To which Grandmère replied, “And that relationship turned out very nicely, didn’t it!”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Oh, Michael, soon we’ll be parkin’ in front of Grand Moff Tarkin Enjoying veggie moo shu to the beeps of R2-D2 And maybe even holding hands while gazing upon the Tatooine sands And knowing that our love by far has more fire power than the Death Star And though they may blow up our planet and kill every creature living on it Like Leia and Han, in the stars above, they can never destroy our love— Like the Millennium Falcon in hyperdrive our love will continue to thrive and thrive.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Tina is so mad at Charlotte Brontë. She says Jane Eyre ruined her life.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Because even a princess has to have fun sometimes.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“And now he was asking me if I wanted a veggie burger. Do guys generally ask their girlfriends if they want a veggie burger right before they break up with them? I wasn’t very well versed in these matters, so the truth was, I didn’t know.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“He went, “Oh, hey, come in, you look . . . you look really beautiful,” which of course is exactly the kind of thing a guy who is about to break up with you would say, you know to kind of bolster your ego before he grinds it beneath his heel.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Have Genovian ambassador to the UN call the CIA. See if they can dispatch some agents to track down my underwear (if it falls into the wrong hands, there could be an international incident!).”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Beast from Beauty and the Beast (I think I know someone else who needs counseling.)”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Below me, I knew, cab drivers were running down little old ladies (unfortunately not Grandmère),”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Okay, I’ll donate two hundred bucks a day to Greenpeace if you keep her out of my hair.” Which is funny, because of course my dad hasn’t got any. Hair, I mean.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“I can’t even seem to handle a zit right. How am I ever going to rule a country?”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up in flames, hand amputations, and blindness. Have some self-respect and don’t let things go too far before the wedding day.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Apparently Lilly has one of those selective memories, where she can remember all the good things she did, but none of the bad things. Kind of like a politician.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Of course Michael says he doesn’t want anything, that I am the only thing he needs (if only I could believe this!!!!!!!!!!) and that he will see me in eight days, and that is the best present anyone could get him.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Like, last night I called my mom and asked her what I should give Michael, and she said silk boxer shorts. But I can’t give Michael UNDERWEAR!!!!!!! I wish my mom would hurry up and have this baby already so she would stop acting so weird. She is pretty much useless to me in her current state of hormonal imbalance.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“You know, like, maybe he loves me like a friend. Only you don’t generally stick your tongue in your friend’s mouth, do you? Well, maybe here in Europe you might. But not in America, for God’s sake.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“I don’t know if Lilly is right about ballet being totally sexist. I mean, the guys have to wear tights, too. Which is actually too much information, if you know what I mean.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“René tried to kiss me at midnight, but I told him to go kiss Grandmère instead. He’d had so much champagne, he actually did it. Grandmère hit him with a decorative swan carved from a pineapple.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“Rommel is the only dog I know with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that is causing him to lick himself bald.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“V. depressing day, as twenty-fifth anniversary of Grandpère’s death. Had to hang wreath on grave, wear black veil, etc. Veil stuck to lip gloss, could not get it off by blowing, finally had to pull it off, causing hat to be swept by wind into Genovian harbor. Prince René fished it out with the help of some friendly topless sunbathers, but hat will clearly never be the same.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting

“They are both doing fine, though my mom still won’t let the doctor tell her what it is she’s having—a boy or a girl. Mom says she doesn’t want to know, since if it’s a boy she won’t push, due to not wanting to bring another Y-chromosomed oppressor into the world”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting