Mia Thermopolis Quotes

Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft
I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft
I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work. ~ Meg Cabot

Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A ~ Meg Cabot

Is everything all right? Is everything all right? Hmm, hold on a minute, let me see ... my mom is going out with my Algebra teacher, a subject I'm flunking, by the way; my best friend hates me; I'm fourteen years old and I've never been asked out; I don't have any breasts; and oh, I just found out I'm the princess of Genovia. ~ Meg Cabot

Grandmere says she can't get over the change in me. She says I seem taller. And you know maybe I am. She thinks it's because I'm wearing another one of Sebastiano's original creations, designed just for me,just like the dress that was supposed to make Michael see me as more than just his little sister's best friend ... except that it turned out he already did. But I know that's not it. And it isn't love, either. Well, not entirely. I'll tell you what it is: self-actualization. That and the fact that it turns out I'm really a princess, after all. I must be, because guess what? I'm living happily ever after. ~ Meg Cabot

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled.
"What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?"
But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways."
Boy, did I ever not hate her then. ~ Meg Cabot

And you know what? Maybe Michael didn't write those notes. And maybe he doesn't
think I'm the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that's all that matters to me. ~ Meg Cabot

I think it's time to recruit the most dangerous man in these halls,' she said.
Tric looked back up to the Hall of Songs, the Shahiid they'd just fled from. 'I thought we just ran away from the most dangerous man in these halls?'
Mia tried to smile.
Settled for shaking her head.
'You've obviously not spent enough time with librarians, Don Tric. ~ Jay Kristoff

She took part of my pain and made it her own. I didn't want her to hurt, but to share my scars with another human was a relief that I hadn't even known I needed until I got it. ~ Mia Sheridan

Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.
That's what Cathy has done to me. ~ Mia Asher

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal. ~ Mia Wasikowska

She'd been intimate with the man, but she had such hazy memories of who he'd really been as a person. She supposed it was because she hadn't ever really known. Perhaps she hadn't even really cared, though at the time she'd thought she did. She'd put her own ideals on him, never looking deep enough to consider that he wasn't able or interested to meet them. Yes, she'd made so many mistakes all in a desperate attempt to finally win the love she'd been denied by her parents. And yet always choosing men who were incapable of loving her. What a warped merry-go-round she'd climbed upon. ~ Mia Sheridan

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. ~ Junot Diaz

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud. ~ Mia Couto

I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine. ~ Mia Sheridan

I loved the way he smelled, too, even though he was sweaty and dirty and un-showered. I could have stuck my nose in his armpit and inhaled happily. It was one of those very human things that was sort of sexy and sort of gross at the same time. ~ Mia Sheridan

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play. ~ Mia Wasikowska

I want men to want me. I want women to be jealous of me. I need to feel desired. ~ Mia Asher

Mia, you're going to need to really up your game in order to bring sexy back. ~ Christina Lauren

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things. ~ Mia Wasikowska

It had to be one of the worst hurts in the entire world - being embarrassed by someone who was meant to protect you, not humiliate you ~ Mia Sheridan

It was hard to really hate someone so good-looking. That was just the unfairness of life. ~ Mia Sheridan

Do you want, to be stabbed??? ~ Mia Therman

I like that you think of me as yours to be stolen. I'm already under your skin, Mia Page. ~ C.J. Fallowfield

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying. ~ Mia Hamm

Got an itch you can't scratch, Matt?"
…"Don't you worry about me, Legs. There's a whole black book worth of willing volunteers."
"Legs?" I ask, taking my purse out of his hands.
"Well I can't call you Tits, can I?"
"You're a piece of work, Taylor."
"It's okay to admit you want me, Mia," he says cockily.
"For what? The medical experience known as your dick? ~ B.J. Harvey

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that. ~ Mia Wasikowska

Mia. I will never share you. I will never trade you. I will never leave you. You are mine, and I will not let you go. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was. ~ Richelle Mead

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. ~ Mia Kirshner

In life, there are those who save us, both in big ways and in small. ~ Mia Sheridan

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. ~ Mia Castile

I barely knew anything about this girl. I only knew that when I was with her, the entire world felt different. It was like this forest was our own secret land, and here, we could be anything we wanted to be. Anything at all. ~ Mia Sheridan

My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her daughter.] ~ Celia Conrad

I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia. ~ Bella Andre

we are torn between a love of the sea and a longing for land, like all true sailors ~ Mia Pinheiro

Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful than never knowing what you're missing. ~ Mia Sheridan

I wasn't born a monster, though my choices certainly have made me one. But I can't stop myself. I can't. Causing pain to others when I'm suffering soothes me. ~ Mia Asher

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too. ~ Mia Sheridan

An image of Mia flashes before my eyes. Seventeen years old, those dark eyes full of love, intensity, fear, music, sex, magic, grief. ~ Gayle Forman

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That. ~ Mia Kirshner

Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait.
Love, Michael. ~ Meg Cabot

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won. ~ Mia Hamm

Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt ~ Mia Sheridan