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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
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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
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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
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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 lookedMeg Rosoff
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Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.Meg Rosoff
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Some people are lonely for all the right reasons.Meg Rosoff
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If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.Meg Rosoff
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After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.Meg Rosoff