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

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

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

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

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

Time erodes us all. — Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quick-wittedness can be very lonely. — 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

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

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

My husband is my most valuable resource. — 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

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

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

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

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

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions. — Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Age is not always the best judge of competence. — Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. — Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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