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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

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
Settle
Settling
Asks
Firsts
First
World

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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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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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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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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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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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