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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
Diana Wynne Jones
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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Diana Gwyneth Jones
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But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. Don't bother me know, said Howl. I only did it for the money. Liar!said Sophie. I said, Michael said, that Calcifer's come back! That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.
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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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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.
Diana Wynne Jones
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch? Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
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In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
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Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
Diana Wynne Jones
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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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
Diana Wynne Jones
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!
Diana Wynne Jones
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
Diana Wynne Jones
Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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