Quotes by Meg Rosoff

About Meg Rosoff:

Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just In Case (Penguin, 2006) won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K.
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She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

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

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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 dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve,...

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If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

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

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The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

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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 stop.

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Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

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On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches...

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But I would like to make an important point before this goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting me for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like that and if you don...

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

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If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

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How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

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A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

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Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard. "Pardon?" "Your dog." "Yes?" "Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter. "Ha bloody ha." Peter stuck his head out of the strea...

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In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things. And that was his fat...

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I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me instead of you who suffers. Justin thought of his brother ...

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Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

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He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and bolted out the door in panic. Boys, thought the butc...

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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 something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn aga...

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Author Bio

  • NameMeg Rosoff
  • DescriptionAmerican-British children's writer
  • BornJanuary 1, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter