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Meg Rosoff Quotes | Quotes said by Meg Rosoff

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #1

    A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.


  • Meg Rosoff Quote #2

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #3

    And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #4

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #5

    But I would like to make an important point before this
    goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting me
    for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that
    Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like
    that and if you don't believe me it just means you've never
    met one of them yourself.
    Which is your loss.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #6

    Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #7

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #8

    He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and bolted out the door in panic.
    Boys, thought the butcher.
    Drugs, thought the woman.
    Justin Case, thought Dorothea.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #9

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #10

    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 Quote #11

    I hate you, I thought, I hate you with your bloody nature-boy airs and your bloody forced-march voyage of bloody discovery. I wondered then if Finn's personality worked on everyone, or whether I had just the the right sort of mentality to fall in step with a self-centered hermit-boy crab murderer.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #12

    I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me instead of you who suffers.
    Justin thought of his brother on that warm summer day, standing up on the windowsill holding both their futures, light and changeable as air, in his outstretched arms.
    Of course, Justin thought, I'm part of his fate just as he's part of mine. I hadn't considered it from his point of view. Or from the point of view of the universe, either. It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second. A butterfly flaps its wings in Africa and my brother in Luton thinks he can fly.
    The child nodded. A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #15

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #16

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #17

    If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #18

    In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things.
    And that was his fate.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #19

    Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.
    No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it.
    When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.
    You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #20

    On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. Below, the huge frilled lips of giant tulips in shades of white and cream nodded in their beds. They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. I've never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn't beauty. Passion, maybe. And something else. Rage.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #21

    Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #22

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

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #23

    Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #24

    Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #25

    Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #26

    The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #27

    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 Quote #28

    Time erodes us all.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #29

    We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.

  • Meg Rosoff Quote #30

    When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

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