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Diana Wynne Jones
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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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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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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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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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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
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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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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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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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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
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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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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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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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 person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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