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1. "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
2. "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." ~ Meg Rosoff
3. "it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees." ~ Meg Rosoff
4. "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." ~ Meg Rosoff
5. "I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors and working in the fields digging turnips till my hands bleed and my back gives out and everyone urges me to keep on for just one more year, at which point I will die of exhaustion and the meagerness of my own life. I will love him and care for him, will never tell him to get his own tea, or sweep the ashes from the hearth or give birth to his own twelfth child himself." ~ Meg Rosoff
6. "Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is." ~ Meg Rosoff
7. "A sorsa egyszeru és világos. Tudom, hogy sose fogja elnémítani azokat a leírhatatlan hangokat. Hallott embereket ölni és meghalni. A hangok megfertozték, megmérgezték ot, átokként átjárják a testét. Nem képes kizárni a fejébol a zajt, és velünk ellentétben nem tudta kilökni magából és a világra zúdítani a gyulöletét. Helyette önmagára zúdította." ~ Meg Rosoff
8. "When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere." ~ Meg Rosoff
9. "Time erodes us all." ~ Meg Rosoff
10. "Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard."Pardon?""Your dog.""Yes?""Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter."Ha bloody ha." Peter stuck his head out of the stream of water, features dripping. He smiled shyly. "I love greyhounds." Justin stared."My dog is imaginary.""Oh." Peter looked interested. "That's unusual." Justin put his head under the water. When he emerged, Peter was still looking at him."Less work," Peter offered, cheerily. "If the dog's imaginary, I mean. Not so much grooming, feeding, et cetera." ~ Meg Rosoff
11. "Staying alive was what we did to pass the time." ~ Meg Rosoff
12. "Every war has it's turning points, and every person too." ~ Meg Rosoff
13. "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." ~ Meg Rosoff
14. "Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck." ~ Meg Rosoff
15. "In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books." ~ Meg Rosoff
16. "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
17. "I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going." ~ Meg Rosoff
18. "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
19. "I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present." ~ Meg Rosoff
20. "It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle." ~ Meg Rosoff
21. "Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth." ~ Meg Rosoff
22. "I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are unable to imagine this.Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved." ~ Meg Rosoff
23. "How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action." ~ Meg Rosoff
24. "I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens." ~ Meg Rosoff
25. "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
26. "I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude." ~ Meg Rosoff
27. "Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror." ~ Meg Rosoff
28. "My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless." ~ Meg Rosoff
29. "I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love." ~ Meg Rosoff
30. "I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?" ~ Meg Rosoff
31. "Now this was clearly one of the greatest improvements on the education system since time began and I was greatly looking forward to being enrolled but Aunt Penn said that I didn't have to do much of anything until autumn term, which didn't start until September, and by that time no one was going to school anyway due to the You Know What." ~ Meg Rosoff
32. "It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.''WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?" ~ Meg Rosoff
33. "Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice." ~ Meg Rosoff
34. "That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. Thedetails didn't matter." ~ Meg Rosoff
35. "The boy squirmed, long skinny legs wrapped round each other, rib-cage twisted ninety degrees from his hips in what appeared to be an impossible configuration of limbs. His elbows jutted out abruptly from his sides like some sort of drafting error and (independently aware of their awkwardness) his arms wound themselves round his torso like vines." ~ Meg Rosoff
36. "Mona wasn't listening. Of course a bet was a bet, she thought. And there was her reputation to consider. Not to mention her safety. Particularly her safety. For she was frightened of Emoto Hed, who had something of a reputation for creative cruelty where unpaid debts were concerned. People disappeared, leaving behind nothing but very long, very piercing screams. Mona imagined that forever could become incredibly tedious when passed in a state of constantly accelerating agony." ~ Meg Rosoff
37. "Oh, please, Mr. B thinks, not a human. Not another human. He is filled with despair. God's passion for humans always leads to catastrophe, to meteorological upset on an epic scale. What is wrong with the boy that he can't get it up for some nice goddess? Why, oh why, can't he pursue a sensible relationship, one that will not end in disaster?" ~ Meg Rosoff
38. "The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and being free—free and hungry, free and cold, free and wet, free and lost. Who could mourn such conditions, faced with the alternative?" ~ Meg Rosoff
39. "So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go." ~ Meg Rosoff
40. "And I think, OK. So a dog isn't the most important thing. But a dog like Honey loves one person completely, unwaveringly, with perfect faith. That has to be more important than most things.And Gabriel, I say. He has Gabriel too.Gil says nothing but I know the answer. The answer is that Gabriel can't save Matthew any more than Gil can, or Honey. Or Jake. But we are all woven together, like a piece of cloth, and we all support each other, for better or worse. Gabriel is just a baby but eventually he will see the world and his father as they are: imperfect, dangerous, peppered with betrayals and also with love." ~ Meg Rosoff
41. "How many events added up to a coincidence?How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?" ~ Meg Rosoff
42. "What else? A handful of hard white sugar lumps from the supply for the master's table. Sugar and cake and blood and pork. That's what little boys are made of. " ~ Meg Rosoff
43. "For those poor souls who can only think of the terrible fear and danger of a runaway horse, think of this: a speed like water flowing over stone, a skimming sensation that hovers and dips while the world spins around and the wind drags your skin taut across your bones. You can close your eyes and lose yourself in the rhythm, because nothing you do or shout or wish for will happen until the running makes up its mind to stop. So you hold steady, balancing yourself in the wake, and unhook your mind from the everyday while you sit at the silent center of it all and hope that the feeling won't stop till you're good and ready for life to be ordinary once more." ~ Meg Rosoff
44. "Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes" ~ Meg Rosoff
45. "I was touched that he has considered the fact that there would be two of us, and prepared for it - concrete evidence that I had entered his consciousness at a time when I was not standing in front of him. A thrilling discovery - like seeing a chimp make tools." ~ Meg Rosoff
46. "Potevi amare qualcuno più di te stesso e la paura per il fatto che ti trovavi nel mezzo di una guerra e rischiavi di finire ammazzata si trasformava nella premura di tenere in vita questo qualcuno." ~ Meg Rosoff
47. "Io so come ci si sente a essere sfigurati e devastati, solo che stavolta tutto questo sta fuori di me. A ogni modo, ho scoperto che combattere è la cosa che mi viene meglio" ~ Meg Rosoff
48. "Stavo morendo per la perdita e l'abbandono, sempre di più ogni giorno che passava." ~ Meg Rosoff
49. "Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono." ~ Meg Rosoff
50. "We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three." ~ Meg Rosoff
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I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people's minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten."
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