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Eva Ibbotson has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even…
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She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the…
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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
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She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know?…
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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not…
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one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a…
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to…
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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
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Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me…
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Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you.…
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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…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously…
— Mark Lynas
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
— Rumi
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God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in…
— Melissa Coleman
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which…
— Wendell Berry
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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not…
— Jamie O'Neill
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A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
— Nick Drake
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
— W. P. Kinsella
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