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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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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
Forever
Someone
Enough
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Love

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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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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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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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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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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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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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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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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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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