Rosie Croall

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“I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. ”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

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“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

tags: age, aging, beauty, body, desire, dream, love, self-image, time

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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

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“I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an idea. Another person. An idea of a person ”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

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