Meg Rosoff Quotes

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.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

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

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

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.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.