Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
Eva IbbotsonThis is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
Eva IbbotsonWhen you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
Eva IbbotsonPauline 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