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I seem to have excalibured this knife.

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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
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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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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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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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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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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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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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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