The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked
Meg RosoffStichwörter: family
Perhaps the way to proceed 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 RosoffThe real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.
Meg RosoffNow let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
Meg RosoffI was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time.
Meg RosoffWhen I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.
Meg RosoffWhy did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation?
Meg RosoffI noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.
Stichwörter: stare
I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in a single exquisite bound.
Meg RosoffI mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?
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