"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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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2006). “The Star of Kazan”, Puffin

Eva Ibbotson

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“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”
“The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.”

Source : "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.
“Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.29, The Floating Press
“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
“I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.”
“It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.”

Source : Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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