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 More Quotes by Megan McCafferty More Quotes From Megan McCafferty The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all. Megan McCafferty no-point correspondence minutes chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) Megan McCafferty happenstance spam creation Words can be used as a bomb or balm. Megan McCafferty bombs used This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted. Megan McCafferty track practice class She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia. Megan McCafferty merry-christmas mia cards It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be. Megan McCafferty kind wish way What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger. Megan McCafferty curls skins hands That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us. Megan McCafferty helping-others helping So much of courtship is the unspoken. Megan McCafferty courtship unspoken ...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling. Megan McCafferty equilibrium grasping falling-in-love Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace. Megan McCafferty arms may fall Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches. Megan McCafferty freshman panties girl As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. Megan McCafferty care want thinking 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 matter talking past I can let my true self shine in front of God. Megan McCafferty fronts shining self Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said. Megan McCafferty prayer waiting long See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you. Megan McCafferty rivers cute ideas I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission. Megan McCafferty newspaper down long ideas I find that all my best ideas come to me in my sleep. Megan McCafferty best me sleep ideas I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly. Megan McCafferty myself think age wonder