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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

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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
Risk
Quite
Getting
Spank
Wizard
Hysterical
Wizards
Hair

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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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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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I hope your bacon burns.
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
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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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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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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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Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
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I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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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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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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