{"author":"Eva Ibbotson","author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["ballet","dance","music","notes","passion","passionate","perform","performance","theatre"],"id":23989,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["dogs"],"id":28129,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["humor-inspirational","philosophical"],"id":28330,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["a-company-of-swans","ballerina","ballet","ballet-dancer","dance","dancer","eva-ibbotson","romance","romantic","theatre"],"id":112560,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["book-lovers","books","humor"],"id":112745,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["inspirational","mourning","sorrow"],"id":113401,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["dogs","eva-ibbotsen","humor","ogres","the-ogre-of-oglefort","transformation"],"id":181980,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["philosophy-of-life"],"id":190028,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"For whether a place is a heaven or a hell rests in yourself, and those who go with courage may find themselves in paradise.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["courage","heaven","hell","inspirational"],"id":304326,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"},{"text":"After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.","author":"Eva Ibbotson","tags":["family","sisters"],"id":365528,"author_id":"Eva+Ibbotson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}