"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
"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..."
"When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky."
"There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music."
"There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music."
"After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster."
"For whether a place is a heaven or a hell rests in yourself, and those who go with courage may find themselves in paradise."
"One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda"
"Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opu..."
"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."