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I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth
Eva Ibbotson / Novelist
Ruth
Sound
Want
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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
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Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.
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Done
Mean
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One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda
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Aunt
Judging
Other Cultures
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That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
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Anna
Olives
Silly
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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
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Mind
Peaceful
Shadow
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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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Nature
Doors
Sky
Stars
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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
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Girl
Song
Writing
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Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
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Dog
Hands
Soul
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Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.
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Chemist
I Can
Vertigo
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What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.
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Able
Thinking
World
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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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Book
Loneliness
Taught
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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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Legs
Shaving
Taxes
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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.
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Book
Missing
Trunks
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For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.
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Dare
Eternity
People
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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 that.
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Girl
Men
Tired
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It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
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Adventure
Blood
People
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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 intelligent and passionate and good.
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Intelligent
Passionate
Thinking
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She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].
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Rose
Smell
Snow
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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 wagging possible should all go as expected.
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Dog
Joy
Would Be
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Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.
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Kissing
Might
Promise
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The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
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Games
Rose
Son
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.
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Cake
News
Should Have
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Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you stop?' asked Tessa. 'I thought you might want to breathe,' said Guy carefully. 'Breathe?'said Tessa , shocked. 'I don’t need to breathe when I’m with you.'
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Guy
Hurt
Long
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Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.
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Baby
Cutting
People
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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.
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Crow
Feet
Snow
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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.
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Autumn
Fall
Spain
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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.
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Air
Flower
Summer
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