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Beauty isn't made of sugar.

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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
Sugar
Beauty
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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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And you're too nice, he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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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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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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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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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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