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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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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
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London
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Diana Gwyneth Jones
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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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Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.
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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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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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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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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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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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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before. Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170
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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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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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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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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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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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