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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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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
Gray
Suits
Refuse
Caught
Believe
Confound
Sophie
Scarlet
Suit

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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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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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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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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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I hope your bacon burns.
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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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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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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.
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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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