Meg Rosoff Quotes

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Old is when people compliment your alligator shoes, and you're not wearing any.

'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.