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Eva Ibbotson, pseudonimo di Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner , è stata una scrittrice britannica di origine austriaca. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Gennaio 1925 – 20. Ottobre 2010  •  Altri nomi اوا ایبوتسون, 伊娃·伊博森
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Eva Ibbotson: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”

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Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Origine: A Company of Swans

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

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“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]….”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“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…”

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Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Origine: A Company of Swans

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

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”

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Eva Ibbotson libro The Morning Gift

Origine: The Morning Gift

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

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Eva Ibbotson libro The Dragonfly Pool

Origine: The Dragonfly Pool

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro Journey to the River Sea

Origine: Journey to the River Sea

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Song for Summer

Origine: A Song for Summer

“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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Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Origine: A Company of Swans

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Countess Below Stairs

Origine: A Countess Below Stairs

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro The Secret of Platform 13

Variante: 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.
Origine: The Secret of Platform 13

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

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Eva Ibbotson libro The Morning Gift

Origine: The Morning Gift

“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.”

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Eva Ibbotson libro A Song for Summer

Origine: A Song for Summer

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

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Eva Ibbotson

Origine: Island of the Aunts

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