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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

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
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Kitten
Hats
Cannot
Robbers

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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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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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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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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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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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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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In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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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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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Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.
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And you're too nice, he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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