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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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


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Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

Eva Ibbotson


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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

Eva Ibbotson


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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, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]....

Eva Ibbotson

Mots clés roses russia a-countess-below-stairs eva-ibbotson



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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.

Eva Ibbotson


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one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

Eva Ibbotson


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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 when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

Eva Ibbotson

Mots clés inspirational love beauty magical feminine



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

Eva Ibbotson

Mots clés humor eva-ibbotson marek song-for-summer



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