Eva Ibbotson Quotes

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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 promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he'd turn into a frog, but not the other way around.

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Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

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When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

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To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

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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 blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

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Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

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The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

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Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

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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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