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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
World
Settle
Settling
Asks
Firsts
First

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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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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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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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A heart's a heavy burden.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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