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1. "He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector" ~ Eva Ibbotson
2. "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." ~ Eva Ibbotson
3. "Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book." ~ Eva Ibbotson
4. "Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure." ~ Eva Ibbotson
5. "What about you, Ellen?' he asked. 'What does music mean to you?'It was a while before she answered. 'When I was at school... quite little still... there was a girl there who had perfect pitch and a lovely voice and she played the piano. I used to hear people talking about her.' She paused, lacing her fingers together. '"She's musical," they used to say, "Deirdre's musical," and it was as if they'd said: "She's angelic." That's how it seemed to me to be musical: to be angelic.'Isaac turned to her. 'My God, Ellen,' he said huskily, 'it is you who are angelic. If there's anyone in the world who is angelic it is you." ~ Eva Ibbotson
6. "When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky." ~ Eva Ibbotson
7. "Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her" ~ Eva Ibbotson
8. "She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good..." ~ Eva Ibbotson
9. "Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.'She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall." ~ Eva Ibbotson
10. "Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls." ~ Eva Ibbotson
11. "How dare you suppose that I don't know who you are or what you are? That I don't understand what I see? Do you take me for some kind of besotted schoolboy? It is unspeakable! You could weigh as much as a hippopotamus and shave your head and wear a wig and it wouldn't make a difference to me. I never said you were beautiful. I never thought it. I said that you were you." ~ Eva Ibbotson
12. "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." ~ Eva Ibbotson
13. "This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her." ~ Eva Ibbotson
14. "He then kissed her.It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face."Why did you stop?" asked Tessa."I thought you might want to breathe," said Guy carefully."Breathe?" said Tessa, shocked. "I don't need to ?breathe? when I'm with you." ~ Eva Ibbotson
15. "For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say." ~ Eva Ibbotson
16. "one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good." ~ Eva Ibbotson
17. "I must go-- the aunts will be worried. Guy, I don't know if we will meet again, but--" Her voice broke and she tried again. "Sometimes, when you're alone and you look up at--" Once more, she had to stop. Then she managed, "If I cannot be anything else... could I be your Star Sister? Could I at least be that?"Guy dug his nails into his palms. Everything in him rose in protest at the fey, romantic conceit. He did not want her in the heavens, linked to him by some celestial whimsy, but here and now in the flesh and after the death of the flesh, her hand in his as they rose from graves like these when the last trump sounded."Yes," he managed to say. "You can be my Star Sister. You can at least be that." ~ Eva Ibbotson
18. "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." ~ Eva Ibbotson
19. "Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies.'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika." ~ Eva Ibbotson
20. "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." ~ Eva Ibbotson
21. "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]...." ~ Eva Ibbotson
22. "One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda" ~ Eva Ibbotson
23. "It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe." ~ Eva Ibbotson
24. "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." ~ Eva Ibbotson

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