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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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Fate
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Calcifer, Sophie said, I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you? It would if anyone else broke it, Calcifer said hoarsely. That's why I asked you to do it.
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And you're too nice, he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty? ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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