167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

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.

This was what happiness felt like – this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

I was happiest when he just came and lay down next to me, and I could almost feel the weight of his body against mine.

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.

Bob’s talent, such as it is, consists entirely of the few unconscious charms of youth: its energy, audacity and complete inability to recognize its own shortcomings.

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

I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

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.

At the time, I didn’t have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I’m older I’ve seen how little it takes to turn a person’s life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.