"The news should have terrified her, but it……" — Eva Ibbotson
"The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake."
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Eva Ibbotson
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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were…
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More Blameless Quotes
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
— Angela Carter
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work…
— Margery Allingham
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
— Plato
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man…
— Whittaker Chambers
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
— Seneca the Younger
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