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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Unruly
Sophie
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Fool
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Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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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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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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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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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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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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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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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'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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 hope your bacon burns.
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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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