Queen of Babble in the Big City Quotes

“Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“I get accused all the time of having a big
mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home.
Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share with
someone you love, I mean?”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way…”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there’s a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it’s on with the
happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He’s an actual PRINCE.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“Which type of wedding gown best suits you?

If you are lucky enough to be tall and slender, you can pretty much get away with any type or shape of gown. That is why models are tall and slender—anything looks good on them!”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“What’s with the labels?” I demand, tugging back. “Why do people have to be defined by their sexual preference? Can’t Shari just be Shari?”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. —Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“When you’re living with someone, you kind of stop dating. And that can take all the romance out of the relationship.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“And what about FICA taxes? FICA—Federal Insurance Contributions Act (or as Tiffany insists the letters really stand for, Fucking Idiots taking my Cash Assets)—seems to eat up more of my paychecks than anything.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“It’s about the person’s soul, Lizzie, not the parts they have on the outside. You know that.” I’d nodded. Because that’s true. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. —René Daumal (1908–1944), French poet and critic”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“That’s why the savvy bride purchases wedding insurance. Like travel insurance, wedding insurance will guarantee that you don’t lose the entirety of your deposits on things like venues, cakes, photographers, food suppliers, wedding limos, flowers, honeymoon, even your gown…”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City

“Peça a minha mão em casamento, Luke. Luke, peça a minha mão em casamento. Luke, eu sou o seu pai... Ah, não, espere...”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City