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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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Sandwiches
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Easily
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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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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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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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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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
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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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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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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've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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 could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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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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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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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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