Meg Rosoff Quotes

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• My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
• 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…
• Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.
• 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…
• The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
• I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
• I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say…
• 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…
• 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…
• Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
• While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
• I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
• I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
• I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.
• I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but…
• The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they…
• I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
• Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll…
• 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…
• 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 seen how little…

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