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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.

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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
Spiders
Spots
Eyes
Eye
Delirious
Crawling

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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
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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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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 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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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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Calcifer, Sophie said, I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you? It would if anyone else broke it, Calcifer said hoarsely. That's why I asked you to do it.
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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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