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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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
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Jigsaw
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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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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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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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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 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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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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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 is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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