Meg Rosoff

“Time erodes us all.”

— Meg Rosoff

“Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.”

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

“Dear, dear," Ivan said, eyebrow raised. "So this is what Kansas looks like.”

— Meg Rosoff

“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments.”

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

“Nem mindig rajtunk múlik, milyen véget érnek a dolgok.”

— Meg Rosoff

“That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.”

— Meg Rosoff

“Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.”

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I…

— Meg Rosoff

“(Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed…

— 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…

— Meg Rosoff

“Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a…

— Meg Rosoff

“I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she…

— 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

I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it…

— Meg Rosoff

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image…

— Meg Rosoff

but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and…

— Meg Rosoff

“I wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there…

— Meg Rosoff

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience,…

— Meg Rosoff

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

“To hide her relief, Laura stepped forward and embraced her daughter. 'My poor darling. He's not worth weeping over. If he doesn't…

— Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the…

— Meg Rosoff

“As it was, nothing happened except the two of us watching the sea come in and go out again, listening to the…

— Meg Rosoff

“Eventually everyone came out of the water and for hours and hours and hours we lay under the tree and talked and…

— Meg Rosoff

“Would it really be better, he wanted to ask, if it were always this nice? Would anyone bother to notice? Or would…

— Meg Rosoff

“A vihar előtti csend pont jó kifejezésnek tűnt arra, ahogy akkor és ott beugrott: akármilyen boldog voltam is abban a percben, de…

— Meg Rosoff

“I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors…

— Meg Rosoff

I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my…

— Meg Rosoff

“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…

— Meg Rosoff

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed,…

— Meg Rosoff

“Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.”

— Meg Rosoff

Every war has turning points and every person too.

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

— Meg Rosoff

“Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is.”

— Meg Rosoff