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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.

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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
Drive
Learn
Never
Life
Passenger
Quentin
Passengers
Mission
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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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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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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...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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Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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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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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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