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.
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make waggi… - Eva Ibbotson
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make waggi…
- Eva Ibbotson
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky. - Eva Ibbotson
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. - Eva Ibbotson
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
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 intelli… - 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 intelli…
The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good. - Eva Ibbotson
The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure. - Eva Ibbotson
Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it. - Eva Ibbotson
Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.
I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth - Eva Ibbotson
I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth
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 tha… - Eva Ibbotson
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 tha…
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