167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

Bob exploded. ‘There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you’re playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese...

The only thing I knew for certain was that all around me was more life than I’d ever experienced in all the years I’d been on earth and as long as no one shut me in the barn away from Edmond at night I was safe.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place – from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

It’s just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second.

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 it taking place under his nose.

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

And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.

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