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Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now , which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. October 1956
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How I Live Now
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What I Was
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How I Live Now
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Famous Meg Rosoff Quotes

“Every war has turning points and every person too.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond.

And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.”

Meg Rosoff

Source: Jonathan Unleashed

“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

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

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff Quotes

“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.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Variant: After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
Source: How I Live Now

“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.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

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

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”

Meg Rosoff

Source: The Bride's Farewell

“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”

Meg Rosoff

Source: There Is No Dog

“Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

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