Eva Ibbotson Quotes

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an…
• It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't…
• She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's…
• But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
• She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow…
• And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than…
• one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
• She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent…
• The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought…
• This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
• Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.
• Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss…
• Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that…
• What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.
• Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
• Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
• To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in…
• For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died…
• Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
• When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

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