Princess Mia Quotes

“Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.

And that was only because he was laughing so hard.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Do one thing every day that frightens you,” Princess Mia advised her audience. “And never think that you can’t make a difference. Even if you’re only sixteen, and everyone is telling you that you’re just a silly teenage girl—don’t let them push you away. Remember one other thing Eleanor Roosevelt said: ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.’ You are capable of great things—never let anyone try to tell you that just because you’ve only been a princess for twelve days, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don’t want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn’t “feminine.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“You know, there's nothing wrong with admitting you're depressed. Many, many people have suffered from depression. Having depression doesn't mean you're crazy, or a failure, or a bad person.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Oh my God. Oh my God, J.P. is in love with me. And we blew up the school.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Great. As if my evening hasn’t been eventful enough, now there is a homeless guy standing in our vestibule. Lars is getting out to remove him. I hope he doesn’t have to use the stun gun. Saturday, September 25, 1 a.m., the loft It wasn’t a homeless guy. It was J.P.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Getting set on fire is so hot,”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“when Kenny yelled, “Everybody get down!” J.P. threw me off my stool and flattened his body over mine, so all the flaming debris landed on him and not me.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Oh my God, did you know that in the 1600s people wore the lice they’d picked off you in lockets as a sign of affection? Gross! I’m glad we have Kay Jewelers instead.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Because, I mean, seriously. I can’t be friends with him. I just can’t. I’d rather have the plague.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Lilly now sits at Kenny Showalter’s lunch table. I guess their mutual appreciation for his muay thai fighting friends has drawn them together, or something.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Oh, yeah. We’re a normal family, all right. No wonder I’m in therapy.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“I’ll miss them. We went through a lot together, my Hello Kitty pajamas and I.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“when you’re in a hole. You forget about the people who would do anything—anything in the world, probably—to help you out of it.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“You know, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lady few would argue didn’t have a good head on her shoulders,” Dr. Knutz remarked, “once said, ‘Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can’t climb out of by yourself. That’s what friends and family are for—to help. They can’t help, however, unless you let them know you’re down there.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Only this time, there were no roots to pull myself out of the hole. I was stuck down there at the bottom. I could see normal life passing by overhead—people laughing, having fun; the sun beating down; the birds and clouds in the sky—but I couldn’t get back up there to join them. I could just watch, from down at the bottom of that big, black hole.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Maybe I was being punk’d. Maybe Ashton Kutcher was going to pop out any minute and be all, “D’oh! Princess Mia! You’ve just been punk’d! This guy isn’t a psychologist at all! He’s my uncle Joe!”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Yes. That’s right. Dr. Knutz is a cowboy. A cowboy psychologist. It so figures that out of all the psychologists in New York, I would end up with a cowboy one.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“I was forced to remind Boris that back when a certain ex-girlfriend of his had rejected him, he’d dropped an entire globe on his head in a misguided attempt to get her back.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“I had no choice but to tell her the truth: That I am dying. Of course I know I’m not really dying. But why does it feel that way?”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“I had bronchitis!” I yelled.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can’t climb out of by yourself. That’s what friends and family are for – to help. They can’t help, however, unless you let them know you’re down there.”
― Meg Cabot, Bad Heir Day

“Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for - to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia