Please, God, ' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall. . Eva Ibbotson
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
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Christopher Brennan
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Eva Ibbotson
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.
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 intelligent and passionate and good...
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.
There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music.
