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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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Howl
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Castles
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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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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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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I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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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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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.
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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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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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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 can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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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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