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Meg Rosoff quotes: I loved horses and horse books as a child.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and

Then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and

Meg Rosoff quotes: Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I guess there was a war going on somewhere in theworld that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

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 quotes: Time erodes us all.

Time erodes us all.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

Meg Rosoff quotes: There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

Meg Rosoff quotes: because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

Meg Rosoff quotes: While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

Meg Rosoff quotes: If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Meg Rosoff quotes: some people are lonely for all the right reasons. After

some people are lonely for all the right reasons. After

Meg Rosoff quotes: I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Meg Rosoff quotes: How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Meg Rosoff quotes: My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff quotes: The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.

Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

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 quotes: My husband is my most valuable resource.

My husband is my most valuable resource.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

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 quotes: The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.

Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.

Meg Rosoff quotes: She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present.

She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present.

Meg Rosoff quotes: The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break

The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break

Meg Rosoff quotes: Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Meg Rosoff quotes: I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff quotes: And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

Meg Rosoff quotes: I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Age is not always the best judge of competence.

Age is not always the best judge of competence.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Every war has turning points and every person too.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

Meg Rosoff quotes: How many events added up to a coincidence?How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

How many events added up to a coincidence?
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

Meg Rosoff quotes: In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe

She sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe

Meg Rosoff quotes: Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

Meg Rosoff quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.''Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

Meg Rosoff quotes: I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Meg Rosoff quotes: But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting.The.Time.Simply.Passed.

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting.
The.Time.Simply.Passed.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Meg Rosoff quotes: My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Meg Rosoff quotes: The more you live, the better writer you are.

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

Meg Rosoff quotes: We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three.

We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?

Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?

Meg Rosoff quotes: I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I noticed that once you realizesomeone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourselfwatching them back.

I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

Meg Rosoff quotes: Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Meg Rosoff quotes: That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. Thedetails didn't matter.

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The
details didn't matter.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Meg Rosoff quotes: There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.

There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.

Meg Rosoff quotes: After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

Meg Rosoff quotes: I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

Meg Rosoff quotes: When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.

When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.