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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

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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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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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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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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 could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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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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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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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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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.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend? The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.
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