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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
Burden
Heavy
Heart

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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop 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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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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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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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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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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