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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
Quentin
Passengers
Mission
Missions
Drive
Learn
Never
Passenger
Life

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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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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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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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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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