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I loved horses and horse books as a child.
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Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
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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. — Meg Rosoff
world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us. — Meg Rosoff
Time erodes us all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper
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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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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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I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
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Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.
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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.
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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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My husband is my most valuable resource.
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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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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Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.
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Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes
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I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
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And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.
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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
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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.
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Age is not always the best judge of competence.
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Every war has turning points and every person too.
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How many events added up to a coincidence?
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy? — Meg Rosoff
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy? — 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? — Meg Rosoff
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? — Meg Rosoff
Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.
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I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world.
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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.
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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The more you live, the better writer you are.
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Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
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Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?
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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. — Meg Rosoff
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back. — Meg Rosoff
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
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