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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

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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
Genius
Lucky
Child
Children

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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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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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Go to bed, you fool, Calcifer said sleepily. You're drunk. Who, me? said Howl. I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.
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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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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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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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