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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
Diana Wynne Jones
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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
Peacefully
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Tidying
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Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!
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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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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write 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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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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I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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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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And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
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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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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie 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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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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