“Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Now this was clearly one of the greatest improvements on the education system since time began and I was greatly looking forward… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I never exactly made a decision about what come next. It come over me slowly, ticking quietly at the back of my… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The closer Finn's island come to extinction, the more I wandered back in my mind to the lives that come before us,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss. The only… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Not to mention the loneliness. And at the same time, the crowdedness. The never being really alone, just to think, to rest… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The startled child gathered his thoughts. I'm not entirely sure what the circumstances are, he said, but as a general rule I… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
“He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
“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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
“Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share
