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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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Castle
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Moving
Castles
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Hats
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
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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'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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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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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A heart's a heavy burden.
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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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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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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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