"She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits……" — Eva Ibbotson
"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 favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen."
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Eva Ibbotson
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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson
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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
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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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