167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

"Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes."

"I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us."

"I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back."

"It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?"

"After all this time, I know exactly where I belong."

"Every war has turning points and every person too."

"Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat."

"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."

"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 tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it."

"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 I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world."