"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!"

-- Eva Ibbotson

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“Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.”
“Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.”
“I take my role seriously as a pastor.”
“Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.”
“When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.”
“Be certain that Yasser Arafatâ€™s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that â€¦ the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.”
“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”
“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

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