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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

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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
Room
Rooms
Dies
May
Going
Howl

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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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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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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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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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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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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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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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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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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.
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