Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now (2004)

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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.

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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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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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I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.

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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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The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

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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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But all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

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

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

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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 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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