Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

Eva Ibbotson's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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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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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…

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Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

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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.

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

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I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

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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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