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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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Beauty
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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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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend? The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.
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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.
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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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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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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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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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So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch? Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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