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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
Diana Wynne Jones
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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
Diana Wynne Jones
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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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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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
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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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A heart's a heavy burden.
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one 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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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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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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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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...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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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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