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

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

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

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

- 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.

- Eva Ibbotson

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

- 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…

- Eva Ibbotson

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

- Eva Ibbotson