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Meg Rosoff Quotes

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything Picture Quote #1

Every war has turning points and every person too Picture Quote #1

Somewhere along the line I’d lost the will not to eat Picture Quote #1

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong Picture Quote #1

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you’re trying to tell them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I didn’t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints Picture Quote #1

I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say Picture Quote #1

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 died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn’t know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him Picture Quote #1

I can’t even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? Picture Quote #1

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 either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway Picture Quote #1

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 to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another’s eyes Picture Quote #1

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I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present Picture Quote #1

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 persistence of youth Picture Quote #1

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 way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle Picture Quote #1

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love Picture Quote #1

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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 doing was a good idea Picture Quote #1

The things that break your heart when you think there’s nothing left to break Picture Quote #1

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn’t one I’ve heard about Picture Quote #1

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 careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The real truth is that the war didn’t have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop Picture Quote #1

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I noticed that once you realize someone’s watching you it’s pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back Picture Quote #1

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn’t one that could touch us Picture Quote #1

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write Picture Quote #1

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Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything (Meg Rosoff Quotes) Every war has turning points and every person too (Meg Rosoff Quotes) Somewhere along the line I’d lost the will not to eat (Meg Rosoff Quotes) After all this time, I know exactly where I belong (Meg Rosoff Quotes) The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you’re trying to tell them (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I didn’t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn’t know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I can’t even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another’s eyes (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 persistence of youth (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 doing was a good idea (Meg Rosoff Quotes) The things that break your heart when you think there’s nothing left to break (Meg Rosoff Quotes) If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn’t one I’ve heard about (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile (Meg Rosoff Quotes) 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 (Meg Rosoff Quotes) The real truth is that the war didn’t have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I noticed that once you realize someone’s watching you it’s pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back (Meg Rosoff Quotes) I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn’t one that could touch us (Meg Rosoff Quotes) The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write (Meg Rosoff Quotes)

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