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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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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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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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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend? The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.
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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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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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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
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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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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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