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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. "
Eva Ibbotson (Secret of Platform 13)
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"She spoke to the King, hoping he would forbid his son to go, but he said: "Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them." "
Eva Ibbotson (Secret of Platform 13)
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""Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.""
Eva Ibbotson
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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."
Eva Ibbotson (A Song for Summer)
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"But she had to know words. She had to know everything."
Eva Ibbotson
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