The Star of Kazan Quotes

“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.”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan

“It was a lovely church - one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous party.”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan

“The world was so beautiful in those days, Annika. The music, the flowers, the scent of pines..."
"It still is," said Annika. "Honestly, it still is.”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan