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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

Diana Wynne Jones

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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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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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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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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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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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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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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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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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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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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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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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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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