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Meg Rosoff
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born
in Boston, The United States
January 01, 1956
gender
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It has come to my attention that the people who should be posting my blogs have been remiss of late. Shame on them. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize on my, sorry, their behalf.Perhaps they have temporarily run out of witty/wise/timely things to say. I suggest you go about your business and [...]
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How I Live Now
— published 2004 — 47 editions |
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What I Was
— published 2007 — 33 editions |
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Just in Case
— published 2006 — 17 editions |
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There is No Dog
— published 2011 — 21 editions |
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The Bride's Farewell
by Meg Rosoff, Susan Duerden — published 2009 — 21 editions |
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Jumpy Jack & Googily
by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall — published 2008 — 2 editions |
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Meet Wild Boars
by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall — published 2005 — 4 editions |
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Wild Boars Cook
by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall — published 2008 — 2 editions |
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The Way I Live Now
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Vamoose!
— published 2010 — 2 editions |
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“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.
There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?
I know you are unable to imagine this.
Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was
There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?
I know you are unable to imagine this.
Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was
“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, How I Live Now
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, How I Live Now
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