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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
Praised
Reasons
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Nobody
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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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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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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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 was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.
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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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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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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 am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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