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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
Knife
Knives
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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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 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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I hope your bacon burns.
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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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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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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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