Quotes by : Eva Ibbotson

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

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail....

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks....

For whether a place is a heaven or a hell rests in yourself, and those who go with courage may find themselves....

He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after....

Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal,....

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated....

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your....

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about....