4 Quotes & Sayings By Mary Allsebrook

Mary Allsebrook wrote her first book, A Week in the Life of God, in 1997. Since then she has written over twenty-five books for children and teenagers, seven of which have been awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages and number more than five hundred thousand copies in print worldwide. Mary lives with her husband and two children.

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Prayer cannot be a substitution for action. Mary Allsebrook
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Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me, ' she explained. Mary Allsebrook
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She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. Mary Allsebrook