Meg Rosoff Quotes

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• 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…
• I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
• Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb…
• it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility…
• It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the…
• Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
• I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.
• She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
• It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.
• After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
• Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of…
• And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that…
• 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…
• 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.…
• I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were…
• The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break
• If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
• It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or…
• but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a…
• Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

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