Meg Rosoff citations

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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