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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
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Sugar
Beauty
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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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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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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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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
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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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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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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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