“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the way to proceed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with.… — 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
I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never… — 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
The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I wold like my life to be as clear as a new… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you… — 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
“Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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 Image
