“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss.
The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could handle at the time. Later I wrote more, my grief muffled but not eased by the passage of time.
When I go back over my writing now I can barely read it. The happiness is the worst. Some days I can't bring myself to remember. But I will not relinquish a single detail of the past. What remains of my life depends on what happened six years ago.
In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Every war has turning points and every person too.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. Below, the huge frilled lips of giant tulips in shades of white and cream nodded in their beds. They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. I've never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn't beauty. Passion, maybe. And something else. Rage. ”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond.
And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“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, quote from How I Live Now
“The 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 Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“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, quote from How I Live Now
“Now 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 Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“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.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“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, quote from How I Live Now
“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 Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“but 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 Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“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 Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from How I Live Now
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“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot of mankind, Spinoza's principle of thinking about the whole, or at any rate about larger matters than your own grief, is a useful one. There are even times when it is comforting to reflect that human life, with all that is contains of evil and suffering, is an infinitesimal part of the life of the universe. Such reflections may not suffice to constitute a religion, but in a painful world they are a help towards sanity and an antidote to the paralysis of utter despair. - about Spinoza”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from A History of Western Philosophy
“To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.”
― J.M. Coetzee, quote from Waiting for the Barbarians
“Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“Visto desde el espacio exterior, Tokio debe parecer una gran burbuja brillante en la que no hay lugar de donde esconderse de esa luz que parece atravesar todas las barreras; el cristal más ahumado y la más gruesa de las membranas, colándose hasta la última esquina de todas las habitaciones, al último escondrijo y la última grieta, a todos los nidos de los pájaros y a toda las colmenas. No había donde correr, ningún sitio en el que no pudieran encontrarte junto a tu sombra”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from Coin Locker Babies
“Is it not better for a man never to have been born?"
"Certaintly not" The response was brisk. "Just to be able to study the sky is reason enough to be alive."
"Unfortunately, I can't see the sky."
"Then listen to music.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Creation
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