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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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Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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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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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
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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 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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!
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