"They were steaming out of the station before……" — Eva Ibbotson
"They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good."
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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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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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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
— Lionel Blue
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate…
— Ronald Reagan
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
— Johannes Kepler
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You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if…
— Jeff Sessions
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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