167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

He didn’t remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

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

There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

After an hour or so when I was sure Piper was calm and safe I slipped off to be with Edmond and we said even less than usual only climbed inside each other for comfort and oblivion and fell asleep that way wrapped in black sheep blankets and together dreamt a single dream that there was no one left in the world but us.

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.

Life’s pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had – and knowing that things could always be worse.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things. Sometimes the loneliness of being the odd man out in these conversation got to me but most of the time I just ignored it. I like old movies. She talks to dogs.

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

Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie’s boyfriend. Julie’s fiance. Julie’s provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.