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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.
Diana Wynne Jones
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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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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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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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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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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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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 can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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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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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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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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