...she sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe

Meg Rosoff

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How many events added up to a coincidence?
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

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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 Rosoff

Tags: life

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Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Meg Rosoff

Tags: war living

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I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the
world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

Meg Rosoff

Tags: life war

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That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The
details didn't matter.

Meg Rosoff

Tags: life-lessons

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But I would like to make an important point before this
goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting me
for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that
Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like
that and if you don't believe me it just means you've never
met one of them yourself.
Which is your loss.

Meg Rosoff

Tags: people

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Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Meg Rosoff

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Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.

Meg Rosoff

Tags: war change

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Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

Meg Rosoff

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