Meg Rosoff Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the
world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
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 didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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.
And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world.
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.
Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?