Quotes from Meg Rosoff

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

Now this was clearly one of the greatest improvements on the education system since time began and I was greatly looking forward to being enrolled but Aunt Penn said that I didn't have to do much of anything until autumn term, which didn't start until September, and by that time no one was going to school anyway due to the You Know What.

because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal?

It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction.

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.

Age is not always the best judge of competence.

wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there an age, a week, a moment, at which all the secrets of the universe are revealed and adulthood descends on a cloud from heaven, altering the brain forever? Will the child-me slink off one day, never to return?

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting. The.Time.Simply.Passed.

El olor de su piel es demasiado familiar para descubrirlo.

Espero para oír lo que va a decir sobre su amigo, pero se queda callado. Sigue hablando dentro de su cabeza. Frases enteras le pasan a toda velocidad delante de los ojos. No puedo leerlas.

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I would like my life to be as clear as a new pane of glass, without anything shameful and no dark shadows. I would like that. But if I am completely honest, I have to acknowledge secrets too painful even to tell myself. There

Al año siguiente, cuando ya no nos hablábamos, pensé que su nueva personalidad realmente tenía sentido, que besar a chicos y fumar marihuana y salir de clase dando fuertes pisotones e insultar a los profesores y básicamente comportarse unas cien veces peor y más escandalosamente de lo que eres en realidad, es lo que hay que hacer para no pensar que tienes que volver a dormir en una casa triste y gris.

Potevi amare qualcuno più di te stesso e la paura per il fatto che ti trovavi nel mezzo di una guerra e rischiavi di finire ammazzata si trasformava nella premura di tenere in vita questo qualcuno.

You can't shoot animals who've just given birth or are pregnant. Even in America.

Io so come ci si sente a essere sfigurati e devastati, solo che stavolta tutto questo sta fuori di me. A ogni modo, ho scoperto che combattere è la cosa che mi viene meglio

Stavo morendo per la perdita e l'abbandono, sempre di più ogni giorno che passava.

Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono.

I never exactly made a decision about what come next. It come over me slowly, ticking quietly at the back of my consciousness for the longest time before I even noticed it was there. But I was halfway to the decision already, living in a hut, becoming what I loved. You would think there`d be a rule to go with that thought, but I had to run way from rules.

then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and

A complex contract was in the process or being forged, whereby Finn agreed to tolerate me presence and I agreed to worship him- totally, but carefully, so not as to destroy the fragile equilibrium of his life.

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

My fortune seemed to obvious to be predicting. Finn's fortune would have been more interesting; I couldn't imagine how he would be anything but sixteen, anywhere but in that hut by the sea, his face and limbs any more or less graceful than they were now. It was like imagining a future for Peter Pan.