167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

"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."

"I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present."

"Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror."

"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."

"The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break"

"Staying alive was what we did to pass the time."

"If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist."

"Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions."

"The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write."

"I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship."