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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.
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
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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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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But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. Don't bother me know, said Howl. I only did it for the money. Liar!said Sophie. I said, Michael said, that Calcifer's come back! That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.
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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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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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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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Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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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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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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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.
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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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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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