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I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea. -- Meg Rosoff
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle. -- Meg Rosoff
Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion. -- Meg Rosoff
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. -- Meg Rosoff
There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley. -- Meg Rosoff
People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry. -- Meg Rosoff
Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not. -- Meg Rosoff
The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and being free - free and hungry, free and cold, free and wet, free and lost. Who could mourn such conditions, faced with the alternative? -- Meg Rosoff
How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action. -- Meg Rosoff
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess. -- Meg Rosoff
But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting.
The.Time.Simply.Passed. -- Meg Rosoff
The feeling of the cold water and the hot sun and having the river just flow over your skin like a dolphin wasn't something I had enough words to describe but was the kind of feeling you never forget. I -- Meg Rosoff
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person. -- Meg Rosoff
Edmond just lay there smoking and telling me he loved me without saying anything out loud and if there ever was a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. The -- Meg Rosoff
His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for a little while I'd feel melted and soft. -- Meg Rosoff
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes. -- Meg Rosoff
Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse. -- Meg Rosoff
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. -- Meg Rosoff
It says: "Baltic Amber, fifty million years old and full of fire; warm, and enduring like love". Wonderfully romantic, don't you think? Only I don't know how to differntiate thestuff from plain old yellow stones. -- Meg Rosoff
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? -- Meg Rosoff
I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world. -- Meg Rosoff
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. -- Meg Rosoff
Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google. -- Meg Rosoff
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. -- Meg Rosoff
The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop. -- Meg Rosoff
It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second. -- Meg Rosoff
I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny. -- Meg Rosoff
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose. -- Meg Rosoff
He could see now that she looked tired; the delicate tissue under her eyes bruised violet with fatigue. He fought an almost irresistible desire to trace the half-circles with his finger. -- Meg Rosoff
It was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees. -- Meg Rosoff
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. -- Meg Rosoff
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place. -- Meg Rosoff
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books. -- Meg Rosoff
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. -- Meg Rosoff
Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him. -- Meg Rosoff
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life. -- Meg Rosoff
He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so. -- Meg Rosoff
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. -- Meg Rosoff
And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me. -- Meg Rosoff
I hate you, I thought, I hate you with your bloody nature-boy airs and your bloody forced-march voyage of bloody discovery. I wondered then if Finn's personality worked on everyone, or whether I had just the the right sort of mentality to fall in step with a self-centered hermit-boy crab murderer. -- Meg Rosoff
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. -- Meg Rosoff
Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat. -- Meg Rosoff
I loved horses and horse books as a child. -- Meg Rosoff
In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler. -- Meg Rosoff
I was happiest when he just came and lay down next to me, and I could almost feel the weight of his body against mine. -- Meg Rosoff
Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins. -- Meg Rosoff
Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway. -- Meg Rosoff
I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come? -- Meg Rosoff
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. -- Meg Rosoff
How many events added up to a coincidence?
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy? -- Meg Rosoff
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop. -- Meg Rosoff
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. -- Meg Rosoff
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind. -- Meg Rosoff
In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things.
And that was his fate. -- Meg Rosoff
Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are. -- Meg Rosoff
And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond.
And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world. -- Meg Rosoff
Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on. -- Meg Rosoff
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked -- Meg Rosoff
So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else. -- Meg Rosoff
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals. -- Meg Rosoff
some people are lonely for all the right reasons. After -- Meg Rosoff
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. -- Meg Rosoff
I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? -- Meg Rosoff
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do. -- Meg Rosoff
Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation? -- Meg Rosoff
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break. -- Meg Rosoff
Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth. -- Meg Rosoff
I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude. -- Meg Rosoff
Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. -- Meg Rosoff
If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all. -- Meg Rosoff
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. -- Meg Rosoff
I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love. -- Meg Rosoff
Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions. -- Meg Rosoff
When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At -- Meg Rosoff
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. -- Meg Rosoff
Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons. -- Meg Rosoff
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly. -- Meg Rosoff
(Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed and fed until it grew up and left, or died. -- Meg Rosoff
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the
world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us. -- Meg Rosoff
Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal. -- Meg Rosoff
Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees. -- Meg Rosoff
That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The
details didn't matter. -- Meg Rosoff
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. -- Meg Rosoff
It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile. -- Meg Rosoff
Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ... -- Meg Rosoff
He would like to be held in the arms of this clear-eyed, clear-voiced girl, who seems to be the only creature among all of his acquaintances who cares for something beside self-glorification and the gratification of her own desires. -- Meg Rosoff
Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal? -- Meg Rosoff
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person. -- Meg Rosoff
I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. -- Meg Rosoff
My husband is my most valuable resource. -- Meg Rosoff
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. -- Meg Rosoff
Eck tilts his head and gently licks Bob's ear with his long, sticky tongue. It is his special way of expressing sympathy and it is not effective. -- Meg Rosoff
I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night. -- Meg Rosoff
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now. -- Meg Rosoff
To hide her relief, Laura stepped forward and embraced her daughter. 'My poor darling. He's not worth weeping over. If he doesn't appreciate a girl like you ... ' But, even to her own ears, the words sounded quaint. What man ever warranted the tears shed on his behalf? -- Meg Rosoff
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. -- Meg Rosoff
I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in a single exquisite bound. -- Meg Rosoff
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading. -- Meg Rosoff
I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world. -- Meg Rosoff
And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones. -- Meg Rosoff
I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back. -- Meg Rosoff
I was touched that he has considered the fact that there would be two of us, and prepared for it - concrete evidence that I had entered his consciousness at a time when I was not standing in front of him. A thrilling discovery - like seeing a chimp make tools. -- Meg Rosoff
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. -- Meg Rosoff
She sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe -- Meg Rosoff
I should have liked this particular story to end with me settled happily ever after in the hut on the island, but it didn't happen. It wasn't long before I had to face the fact that I was living in the sea. -- Meg Rosoff
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling. -- Meg Rosoff
When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can. -- Meg Rosoff
The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break -- Meg Rosoff
She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present. -- Meg Rosoff
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. -- Meg Rosoff
Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes -- Meg Rosoff
I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time. -- Meg Rosoff
What else? A handful of hard white sugar lumps from the supply for the master's table. Sugar and cake and blood and pork. That's what little boys are made of. -- Meg Rosoff
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs. -- Meg Rosoff
That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone. -- Meg Rosoff
I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of. -- Meg Rosoff
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. -- Meg Rosoff
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist. -- Meg Rosoff
We couldn't believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast. -- Meg Rosoff
Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice. -- Meg Rosoff
I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York. -- Meg Rosoff
It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.'
'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP? -- Meg Rosoff
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children. -- Meg Rosoff
There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that. -- Meg Rosoff
Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head. -- Meg Rosoff
I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say. -- Meg Rosoff
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. -- Meg Rosoff
Bob's talent, such as it is, consists entirely of the few unconscious charms of youth: its energy, audacity and complete inability to recognize its own shortcomings. -- Meg Rosoff
Every war has turning points and every person too. -- Meg Rosoff
because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper -- Meg Rosoff
I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. -- Meg Rosoff
In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. -- Meg Rosoff
Age is not always the best judge of competence. -- Meg Rosoff
Time erodes us all. -- Meg Rosoff
Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there. -- Meg Rosoff
I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. -- Meg Rosoff
I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. -- Meg Rosoff
We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three. -- Meg Rosoff
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time. -- Meg Rosoff
When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere. -- Meg Rosoff
Then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and -- Meg Rosoff
Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best. -- Meg Rosoff
Quick-wittedness can be very lonely. -- Meg Rosoff
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write. -- Meg Rosoff
The more you live, the better writer you are. -- Meg Rosoff
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread. -- Meg Rosoff