Megan McCafferty
Megan McCafferty
Megan Fitzmorris McCaffertyis an American author known for The New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series of young-adult novels published between 2001 and 2009. McCafferty gained international attention in 2006 when novelist Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarizing the first two Jessica Darling novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful caring practice
I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.
girl winning years
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
road-less-traveled smooth traveled
The road less traveled will not be smooth
real important world
The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.
hurt
You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.
flaws
He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.
thinking want care
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
wish way kind
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.
cute ideas rivers
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.
growing-up might intention
Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.
fall may arms
Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
syllabus guides guide-me
Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?
taken cutting progress
Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.
nice people waiting
Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?