85 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson

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 opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

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

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.

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

It was a night to dream about: windless, warm and scented, with a streak of gold and amethyst still lingering in the sky.

She smiled, her face tender in the lamplight. “I wish you had known him. He could make just being alive seem like an act of triumph. People used to smile when they saw him coming… he made everything all right.

Rupert looked down at the little upturned face with its mass of freckles and marigold curls and a wave of tenderness for Muriel swept over him. She could so easily have wanted to choose someone of her own. “I think you’re going to be absolutely beautiful,” he said.

For attached to every wedding is that font of hope, that potential piece of manna, the best man.