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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

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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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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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Go to bed, you fool, Calcifer said sleepily. You're drunk. Who, me? said Howl. I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.
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