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You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty? ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

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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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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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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 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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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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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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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 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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And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
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