"For an instant she felt his touch on……" — Eva Ibbotson
"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 for less I dare say."
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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
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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…
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She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last…
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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,…
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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old…
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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…
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so…
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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song…
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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…
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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…
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