Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.
Meg RosoffThe things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break
Meg RosoffThough we were all taught to be proud of living in this great parliamentary democracy the civil servants who ran it were a fearsome bunch - a nameless mass of people with jobs (police, social workers, record-keepers, teachers, councilmen) whose sole purpose was to keep everyone shuffling from birth to death in a nice orderly queue. Surely some social-service record had been passed to the local constabulary bearing a huge black question mark beside the name Finn and the scrawled words, " Why isn't this boy in school
Meg RosoffIf there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
Meg RosoffStichwörter: life love fun beautiful
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
Meg RosoffStichwörter: love teenagers dystopian
It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.
Meg Rosoffbut 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.
Meg RosoffSomewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
Meg RosoffEvery war has turning points and every person too.
Meg RosoffPerhaps 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.
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