"one of the sisters started shaving her legs……" — Eva Ibbotson

"one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good."

— Eva Ibbotson

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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's…
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last…
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,…
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old…
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but…
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so…
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song…
Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to…
Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I…
Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were…

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