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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
Settling
Asks
Firsts
First
World
Settle

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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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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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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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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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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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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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I hope your bacon burns.
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