Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.

Eva Ibbotson

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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.

Eva Ibbotson


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What are you afraid of then?
Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.

Eva Ibbotson


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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


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

Eva Ibbotson


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But of course he knew, all of them knew. There is only one kind of a person a wizard can marry, and that is a witch.

Eva Ibbotson

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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.

Eva Ibbotson

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well wtith a statue hermann cannot possibly fight

Eva Ibbotson

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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.

Eva Ibbotson

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Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

Eva Ibbotson


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