“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.”

—  Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

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British children's writer 1925–2010

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