"She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow……" — Eva Ibbotson
"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 had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]...."
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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson
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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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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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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it…
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna…
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