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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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
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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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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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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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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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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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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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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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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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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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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