Meg Rosoff Quotes
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I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
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Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
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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.
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Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
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Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
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I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd be dead without you. And you're so good to me. And you love me too. How lucky is that? Amazing! Amazingly lucky. I can't live without you. You're my lucky charm." She felt a sudden desire to kill Justin's well-meaning friend.
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I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.
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The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break
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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.
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After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
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A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
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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.
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but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.
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I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.
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While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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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.
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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.
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If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
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I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
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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.
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Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
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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.
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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
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The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.
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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.
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I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
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Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
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And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.
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