Meg Rosoff Short Quotes

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I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

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

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

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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

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

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

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I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

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

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

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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.

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A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

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Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

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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.

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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.

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If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

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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.

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